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The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California, United States.It is 40–60 mi (60–100 km) wide and runs approximately 450 mi (720 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific coast of the state.
California's geography is largely defined by its central feature—the Central Valley, a huge, fertile valley between the coastal mountain ranges and the Sierra Nevada. The northern part of the Central Valley is called the Sacramento Valley , after its main river, and the southern part is called the San Joaquin Valley / ˌ s æ n w ɑː ˈ k ...
Geography of the Central Valley — the major valley of central and northern California. Composed of the San Joaquin Valley south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta area, and the Sacramento Valley north of it.
The California Central Valley grasslands is a temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion in California's Central Valley.It a diverse ecoregion containing areas of desert grassland (at the southern end), prairie, savanna, riparian forest, marsh, several types of seasonal vernal pools, and large lakes such as now-dry Tulare Lake (which was the largest freshwater lake in the United ...
Geography of the Central Valley (California) (6 C, 9 P) N. Natural history of the Central Valley (California) (8 C, 304 P) Pages in category "Central Valley (California)"
For Central Valley residents, high-speed rail will be a reality in just a few years. ... San Francisco and the California coast by both conservative politics and physical distance — is first ...
The 10-day “Klan Fiesta” at the Fresno fairgrounds drew 50,000 attendees from throughout California and the Southwest. How the Central Valley became a fertile land for Southerners, 1924 KKK ...
Most of the population of California and Baja California lives in these ecoregions, which includes the San Francisco Bay Area, Ventura County, the Greater Los Angeles Area, San Diego County, Tijuana, and Ensenada, Baja California. The California Central Valley grasslands ecoregion, as well as the coniferous Sierra Nevada forests, Northern ...