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The Salinas Valley (Spanish: Valle de Salinas) [1] [2] is one of the major valleys and most productive agricultural regions in California. [3] It is located west of the San Joaquin Valley and south of San Francisco Bay and the Santa Clara Valley .
The Salinas River (Rumsen: ua kot taiauaÄorx) [6] is the longest river of the Central Coast region of California, running 175 miles (282 km) and draining 4,160 square miles (10,800 km 2). [7] It flows north-northwest and drains the Salinas Valley that slices through the central California Coast Ranges south of Monterey Bay. [3]
It was the hometown of writer and Nobel laureate John Steinbeck (1902–68), who set many of his stories in the Salinas Valley and Monterey. [14] Salinas has a high Hispanic proportion, which at 79.6%, is the highest proportion of Hispanic Americans out of any city in California, and 8th largest overall in the nation. [15]
Soledad is a city in Monterey County, California, United States.It is in the Salinas Valley, 21 miles (34 km) southeast of Salinas, the county seat. [6] [8] Soledad's population was 24,925 at the 2020 census, [7] down from 25,738 in 2010.
It includes the northern portion of the San Joaquin Valley (which itself is the southern portion of the Central Valley, beginning at the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta), part of the Central Coast, the central hills of the California Coast Ranges and the foothills and mountain areas of the central Sierra Nevada.
The Salinan Native American tribe lived along the Salinas River, encompassing present-day Monterey County and San Luis Obispo counties. [5] According to the California State Military Museum, visits to the site are limited by the United States Army base at Fort Hunter Liggett. The entrance to the cave is at an elevation 3,000 ft (910 m).
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.
The San Ardo Oil Field From the Coast Starlight. View of the San Ardo Oil Field, with the Salinas River in the foreground. A familiar sight to travelers on U.S. Highway 101 between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the oil field is located about midway between Paso Robles and King City, in the southern part of Monterey County, at the Alvarado Road exit from U.S. 101.