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The Carrizo Plain Obispeño: tšɨłkukunɨtš, `Place of the rabbits`;[5] is a large enclosed grassland plain, approximately 50 miles 80 km long and up to 15 miles 24 km across, in southeastern San Luis Obispo County, California, about 100 miles 160 km northwest of Los Angeles.[6] It contains the 246,812-acre 99,881 ha[3] Carrizo Plain National Monument, and it is the largest single native grassland remaining in California. It includes Painted Rock in the Carrizo Plain Rock Art Discontiguous District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2012 it was further designated a National Historic Landmark due to its archeological value. The San Andreas Fault occurs along the eastern edge of the Carrizo Plain at the western base of the Temblor Range.