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The San Joaquin River (/ ˌ s æ n hw ɑː ˈ k iː n / ⓘ SAN whah-KEEN; Spanish: Río San Joaquín [ˈri.o saŋ xoaˈkin]) is the longest river of Central California.The 366-mile (589 km) long river starts in the high Sierra Nevada and flows through the rich agricultural region of the northern San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suisun Bay, San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean.
The largest bodies of water in the Bay Area are the San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay.The San Francisco Bay is one of the largest bays in the world. Many inlets on the edges of the three major bays are designated as bays in their own right, such as Richardson Bay, San Rafael Bay, Grizzly Bay, and San Leandro Bay.
San Joaquin subregion: San Joaquin River Basin: California: 15,600 sq mi (40,000 km 2) HUC1804: 1805 San Francisco Bay subregion: The drainage into the Pacific Ocean from the Stemple Creek Basin boundary to and including the Pescadero Creek Basin, excluding the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Basins: California: 4,470 sq mi (11,600 km 2 ...
The California Department of Water Resources recognizes 10 hydrologic regions and three additional drainage areas within the U.S. state of California. The hydrologic regions are further subdivided into 515 groundwater basins. [1]
The Delta provides an estimated seven million acre-feet (2.1 cu mi; 8.6 km 3) of water per year, of which about 100,000 acre-feet (0.030 cu mi; 0.12 km 3) are exported to the San Francisco Bay Area, 1.7 million acre-feet (0.50 cu mi; 2.1 km 3) are used locally, and over five million acre-feet (1.5 cu mi; 6.2 km 3) are exported to the San ...
An 1873 map shows Tulare Lake prior to shrinkage from large-scale agriculture.. The San Joaquin Valley is the southern half of California's Central Valley. [4] It extends from the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in the north to the Tehachapi Mountains in the south, and from the California coastal ranges (Diablo and Temblor) in the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east.
That water is diverted from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Estuary, a water hub that serves as the junction of south-, west-, and north-flowing rivers draining the Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges. Certain municipalities north of San Francisco Bay, including Santa Rosa and Petaluma, are served by the Sonoma County Water Agency.
The watershed which drains into the Pacific Ocean via San Francisco Bay in California. The drainage basin is located west of the Sierra Crest, and includes the Central Valley (Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Valley) and the Bay Area.