Pajaro is a census-designated place (CDP) in Monterey County, California, United States. Pajaro is located on the south bank of the Pajaro River 5mi northeast of its mouth, at an elevation of 26 feet (8 m). The population was 3,070 at the 2010 census, down from 3,384 at the 2000 census. The school district is in Santa Cruz County.The town, the name of which is derived from pájaro (bird in Spanish), is in the Pajaro Valley on the Pajaro River, which divides the city from Watsonville and Santa Cruz County.GeographyPajaro is located at.According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.9sqmi, all of it land.HistoryThe Pajaro post office operated from 1872 to 1873 and from 1882 to 1888.This town was heavily flooded in 1995 and 1998.The oldest building in the community of Pajaro is the Porter-Vallejo Mansion. Constructed in the 1840s and remodeled multiple times, it was acquired in 1991 by then-Monterey County Supervisor Marc Del Piero and converted into a public library/senior citizen center. Additionally, it also houses a day-care facility for the children of migrant farm workers.On Monday, May 11, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt stopped in Pajaro for a ten-minute whistle stop address on his way to Santa Cruz. He arrived in his special train via the Southern Pacific at 8:50am and left at 9:00am.
