Buchon

Buchon Street was named for the giant Indian cacique, who was 6 feet, 10 inches tall. He hd a huge goiter and Portola's men named him El Buchon. the word means the craw of a bird and describes the goiter of the Indian chieftan. Point Buchon was also named for him.

Buchon was chief of the northern Chumash’s main village of Sepjato, located on the bluff overlooking the mouth of the San Luis Obispo Creek. It was the one of the largest Indian settlements north of Point Conception.

Another version of the Portola Expedition claims that

Sergeant Ortega was taken ill, and ten of the soldiers complained of sore feet. They rested on the 3d, and on the 4th reached the mouth of the San Luis cañon. Here they were hospitably received by the chief of a large ranchería, whose appearance caused the soldiers to apply to him the name of "El Buchon," he having a large tumor hanging from his neck. Father Crespi did not approve of the name which the soldiers applied to the chief, his ranchería, and to the cañon leading up to San Luis Obispo, and he named the village San Ladislao. As in so many cases the good father was unable to make the name he gave stick, the saint has been ignored, but Point Buchon, just above Point Harford and Mount Buchon, otherwise known as Bald Knob, bear witness to the staying qualities of the tumor on the chief's neck. Passing up the narrow cañon of San Luis creek, they camped at or near the site of the mission and city of San Luis Obispo. From here, instead of proceeding over the Sierra de Santa Lucia by the Cuesta pass into the upper Salinas valley, whence the march to Monterey would have been easy, they turned to the west and followed the Cañada de los Osos to the sea at Morro Bay, which they called El Estero de San Serafin. The Cañada de los Osos, still so called, they named because of a fight with some very fierce bears, one of which they succeeded in killing after it had received nine balls. Another wounded the mules, and the hunters with difficulty saved their lives.  

-https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4978/4978-h/4978-h.htm

Additional information about Buchon was found in “Somnolent Cape: The Story of Pecho Coast” by Harold Miossi.

Gaspar de Portola, as long with his cartographer prepared a map in 1770 which referenced to the San Luis Range as “Sierra de Buchon” and to San Luis Bay as “Bahia de Buchon”, based on diarist Fr. Crespi’s account of their encounter with Indian Chief El Buchon near Price Canyon. A coast survey map prepared during the Civil War named Pecho Coast “Cape Buchon” and its highest elevation, “Monte del Buchon,” being the prominence at the head of Diablo Canyon now called Saddle Peak.