Is Los Santos canonically an island?

Newer GTA 5 players wonder why Los Santos is on an island. Los Santos is based on Los Angeles, while San Andreas shares some similarities with California. In real life, California is not an island. It has a large body of water on the western side, and several states on the other.

What is Los Santos supposed to be?

Los Santos is a fictional city in the GTA universe, loosely based on Los Angeles and other California Coast cities. It is the setting for games like GTA SA and GTA V, and has many different sections, based on real life places.

Where is Los Santos supposed to be located?

Map of the City of Los Santos.

The City of Los Santos, commonly known as Los Santos, is a city located in the State of San Andreas, and it is the first city encountered in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It is based on Los Angeles, California.

What is the island of Los Santos called?

TODOS SANTOS ARCHIPELAGO

Known as an Island, it is in reality and Archipelago, located 19.2 Km (8 nautical mailes) from the west coast of Ensenada, Baja California, it is better known for its surfing waves. Todos Santos is made of two Islands, referred to as North and South.

Is San Andreas an island state?

San Andreas appears to be comprised entirely of islands, as the state is surrounded by water; however, several maps throughout the state depict the northern regions (Tierra Robada and Bone County) connecting to the mainland (despite this, it is possible to completely circumnavigate the state by boat).

Grand Theft Auto vs. Real Life

Will California eventually be an island?

No, California is not going to fall into the ocean. California is firmly planted on the top of the earth's crust in a location where it spans two tectonic plates.

When did California stop being an island?

It was only in 1746 when Fernando Consag, another Jesuit, sailed completely around the Gulf of California was it accepted that California was indeed not an island, so decreed by King Ferdinand VI of Spain in 1747.

How big is Los Santos in real life?

Most of San Francisco would fit in GTA V.

For reference, GTA V's Los Santos is about three times bigger than GTA IV's Liberty City, and is the same size of the vast majority of San Francisco, Manhattan, and the Greater Toronto Area.

What beach is Los Santos based on?

Vespucci Beach is one of the many Locations in Grand Theft Auto V. Vespucci Beach is a neighborhood in Los Santos that is modeled after a combination of Venice Beach and Santa Monica.

What part of LA is Los Santos based on?

There are several areas in Los Santos, the major ones are Blaine County, Downtown, Little Seoul, South Los Santos, Vespucci Beach and Rockford Hills. Practically all are based on real-life neighborhoods surrounding L.A. like downtown Los Angeles, Koreatown, South Central, Venice Beach and Beverly Hills.

Where is Paleto Bay in real life?

A personification of small-town rural America, Paleto Bay is nestled in the San Andreas countryside and is loosely based on Fillmore, a town in California's Ventura County.

How accurate is the GTA map to LA?

The game is much more scaled down than the real place, so all of the roads are definitely not there, and neither are many many places. [...] You also have to understand that it is a game, so taking note on the general grid layout of LA streets, Rockstar did in the end design the roads to fit their game.

Is GTA exactly like LA?

As many iconic locations and buildings are actually from/inspired by actual locations and buildings in LA, it actually does – but the scale is completely off. Think of it as a version of a super condensed version of LA. LA is vast, in GTA the city is tiny.

What river is Los Santos in real life?

This iconic Grand Theft Auto V location is called the Los Santos Storm Drain, and it's based on the Los Angeles River.

What is South Los Santos based on?

It is probably based on the real world South Los Angeles. The area also includes the well known Grove Street, which featured heavily in the previous incarnation of Los Santos but has changed significantly since.

What city will GTA 6 be in?

According to the aforementioned Bloomberg report, GTA 6 is currently set in and around a fictional version of Miami (much like the previous game Vice City).

What is Paleto Bay called in real life?

Paleto Bay

Its design and layout are based on Fillmore, a town in Ventura County, California.

What is Mt Chiliad in real life?

Mount Chiliad is likely based on Mount San Jacinto, however it could also be based on Mount San Antonio and/or San Gorgonio Mountain.

Where is Grove street in real life?

Grove Street is most likely based on Spruce Street in Compton because of the cul-de-sac, the tree related name, the proximity to the city's river (in a separate location of the street), and that the Ballas occupy the area. In real-life, the Tree Top Piru set of the Bloods occupy the street.

Which GTA has biggest map?

Is Los Santos bigger than rdr2?

The Red Dead Redemption 2 map is much larger.

Did people used to think California was an island?

Just thirty years before America was born, California was still an island. And yet, somehow, mapmakers kept drawing California as an island for over two hundred years. Some sailors even claimed they'd sailed around it.

Why do old maps show California as an island?

In the 1530s Spanish explorers led by Hernán Cortés encountered the strip of land we now know as the Baja Peninsula. They mistook it for an island and called it California.

Why is California not an island?

The Island of California (Spanish: Isla de California) refers to a long-held global misconception, dating from the 16th century, that the Baja California Peninsula was not part of mainland North America but rather a large island separated from the continent by a strait now known as the Gulf of California.