Paradise Cay is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in Marin County

Marin County, California

Marin County is a county located in the North San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. As of 2010, the population was 252,409. The county seat is San Rafael and the largest employer is the county government. Marin County is well...

, California

California

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. It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Point San Quentin, at an elevation of 23 feet (7 m).

Paradise Cay is a waterfront community at the foot of the Tiburon Peninsula

Tiburon Peninsula (U.S.)

The Tiburon Peninsula is a landform of the San Francisco Bay Area's Marin County and incorporates the communities of Tiburon and Belvedere, California Much of the land area of the Tiburon Peninsula was part of a Spanish land grant originally given to the early Californian John Reed...

 north of Point Chauncey and south of Corte Madera Creek along San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean...

. The community is in ZIP code

ZIP Code

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 94920 and area code 415

Area code 415

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Natural history

Paradise Cay is situated close to Triangle Marsh

Triangle Marsh

Triangle Marsh is a wetland of the San Francisco Bay situated at the base of Ring Mountain at the north end of the Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, California, USA....

, a location of considerable biological productivity. To the south is the Tiburon Peninsula

Tiburon Peninsula (U.S.)

The Tiburon Peninsula is a landform of the San Francisco Bay Area's Marin County and incorporates the communities of Tiburon and Belvedere, California Much of the land area of the Tiburon Peninsula was part of a Spanish land grant originally given to the early Californian John Reed...

 which is dominated by Ring Mountain; Ring Mountain itself exhibits extensive floral biodiversity and also manifests extant Native American

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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 petroglyph

Petroglyph

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Politics

In the state legislature

California State Legislature

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 Paradise Cay is located in the 3rd Senate District

California's 3rd State Senate district

California's 3rd State Senate District is one of 40 California State Senate districts. It is currently represented by Democrat Mark Leno of San Francisco.-District profile:...

, and in the 6th Assembly District

California's 6th State Assembly district

California's 6th State Assembly District is one of 80 districts in the California State Assembly. It is currently represented by Democrat Jared Huffman of San Rafael.-District profile:...

. Federally, Paradise Cay is in California's 6th congressional district

California's 6th congressional district

California's 6th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California that stretches up the Pacific coast north of the San Francisco Bay...

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