Cambria is a seaside village in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States midway in the company of San Francisco and Los Angeles along California State Route 1 (Highway 1). The pronounce Cambria, chosen in 1869, is the Latin say for Wales. Cambria is situated amidst Monterey pines in one of lonesome three such original forests. Previously, the town had considering by the names of Slabtown, Rosaville, San Simeon, and Santa Rosa. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined the unincorporated community as a census-designated place (CDP). The CDP had a population of 5,678 at the 2020 census, down from 6,032 at the 2010 census.

The early human concurrence of this Place is known to be joined with out of date habitation by the Native American Chumash peoples, who harvested along the coastal area, with emphasis on sites that were close to rivers.

Although recorded history of the tribes in this region does not start until the explorers and missionaries arrived, there is evidence of many tribal settlements in the area later known as Cambria. It is estimated that as many as 30,000 people inhabited the area in the time (some 1,000 years) before the Spanish arrived. Experts tolerate these tribes to have been migratory and used Cambria as a seasonal settlement; other scientists are convinced that they lived there permanently. Most comply that they fed themselves taking into consideration shellfish and seafood, as capably as obtaining food from travels inland to hunt and gather together seeds. A variety of artistically-crafted implements have been discovered, including spears points and arrowheads made from obsidian; basalt, sandstone, and granite were used to make mortars and pestles; soapstone kettles and rock hammers were in addition to found. These prematurely inhabitants were clever basket and net makers and fashioned jewelry from crab claws, abalone shells, and the teeth of sharks and whales. The presence of soapstone (steatite) provides evidence that they traded past the Catalina Island tribes, whereas the dearth of metals and glass indicates that they did not trade later Europeans or Asians.

A tribal site on present-day Cambria was named tsɨtkawayu, Obispeño for “Place of the horses”.