Tunitas, California was a small unincorporated community in San Mateo County.

It was originally located on State Route 1 until that state route was moved to the west.

It was also renamed Lobitos.

[1] Arroyo de las Tunitas is shown on the diseños, about 1839, of the San Gregorio and Canada Verde grants.

[2] The name means “A small bush…grows super-abundant at and near its mouth, and its fruit is known to the present generation as sea apples.”[3]