Pajaro (Spanish Pájaro 'bird') is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Monterey County, California.

It is located on the south bank of the Pajaro River 5 miles (8 km) northeast of its mouth,[5] at an elevation of 26 feet (7.9 m).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the Pajaro CDP has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2), all of it land.

Constructed in the 1840s and remodeled multiple times, it was acquired in 1991 and converted into a public library/senior citizen center.

Supervisor Marc Del Piero, a Pajaro native, also secured major federal grants to acquire and completely rebuild the public water system in 1984, and transferred it to the newly created Pajaro Community Services District.

[citation needed] On Monday, May 11, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt stopped in Pajaro for a ten-minute whistle-stop address on his way to Santa Cruz.

[6][7][8][9] A proposed Pajaro/Watsonville station is expected to be built at Watsonville Junction for Caltrain and Amtrak's Capitol Corridor.

Some public services in the Community of Pajaro are provided by the Pajaro-Sunny Mesa Community Services District (PSMCSD) which was organized by North County (District 1) Supervisor Marc Del Piero and the Monterey County Board of Supervisors in 1984.

Between 1984 and 1990, Supervisor Marc Del Piero secured federal grant funds that re-constructed and expanded major portions of the Pajaro County Sanitation District sewer system.

This remedied multiple public health problems and extended services to the Bay Farms, Fruitland, and Las Lomas neighborhoods.