La Brea Tar Pits
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Summary
La Brea Tar Pits is a tar pit[1]. It draws 6,922 Wikipedia views per month (tar pit category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Los Angeles[3]
- Country: United States[4]
- Instance of: paleontological site[5], museum[6]
- Maintained by: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County[7]
- Location: Rancho La Brea[8]
- Commons category: La Brea Tar Pits[9]
- Temporal range start: Late Pleistocene[10]
- Temporal range end: Holocene[11]
- Official website: https://tarpits.org[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:La Brea Tar Pits[13]
- Elevation above sea level: 184 feet[14]
- Social media followers: 6802[15], 6376[16], 65,500[17], 9173[18], 68,900[19], 68,700[20]
Why It Matters
La Brea Tar Pits has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]