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Early Explorers. In 1776, Spanish explorers came to today's San Mateo. During a scouting trip to locate a place to start a colony on the Peninsula, Lieutenant Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza, Padre Pedro Font, Lieutenant Jose Joaquin Moraga, and eleven soldiers set up camp in San Mateo.
San Mateo County (/ ˌ s æ n m ə ˈ t eɪ. oʊ / SAN mə-TAY-oh; Spanish for "Saint Matthew") is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 764,442. The county seat is Redwood City. The county is in the San Francisco Bay Area region. It is on the San Francisco Peninsula. References
Get around. See. Do. Buy. Eat. Drink. Sleep. Go next. San Mateo from above. San Mateo is a town on the Peninsula in the Bay Area of California . Get in. By plane edit. San Mateo is near 1 San Francisco International Airport ( SFO IATA ). The Bay Area's other airports, 2 Oakland ( OAK IATA) and 3 San Jose ( SJC IATA ), are less convenient.
