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Dahnohabe, California

human settlement in California, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ5208926 ↗
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Dahnohabe (also, Dah-no-habe and Do-no-ha-be) is a former Pomo settlement in Lake County, California, United States. It was located on the west side of Clear Lake; its precise location is unknown.

The Dahnohabe Pomo were among several groups of Pomo from the Clear Lake area who met with George Gibbs in 1852. According to Gibbs, the name means "stone mountain".

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This entry incorporates text from “Dahnohabe, California” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.