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Pacific Beach

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Pacific Beach is a neighborhood of San Diego, bounded by La Jolla to the north, Mission Beach to the south, Interstate 5 to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Populated largely by surfers and college students.

The primary north-south street is Mission Boulevard; east-west streets are named after precious stones in roughly alphabetical order from north to south: