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The Arroyo Seco generally has a flow of several cubic feet per second, [13] but periodically it is inundated by torrential floods from its steep, erosion-prone mountain watershed. The reputation of Arroyo Seco floods led the Spanish to site the original Pueblo de Los Ángeles away from the confluence of the Arroyo Seco and the Los Angeles River ...
Arroyo Seco is a town in Arroyo Seco Municipality located in the far north of the Mexican state of Querétaro. Its territory is part of the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve of Querétaro. The municipality is centered on the small town of Arroyo Seco, which was established as a military outpost then given town status in 1833 under the name of ...
Draining 275 square miles (710 km 2), the Arroyo Seco River is the last major tributary of the Salinas River that enters before it reaches the Pacific.Most of the watershed lies in the rugged coastal range areas southwest of Greenfield and Soledad, and the drainage divide runs along the crest of the Santa Lucia Mountains to the west and the lower Sierra de Salinas to the northeast.
The Arroyo Seco Parkway, also known as the Pasadena Freeway, is one of the oldest freeways in the United States. It connects Los Angeles with Pasadena alongside the Arroyo Seco seasonal river. Mostly opened in 1940, it represents the transitional phase between early parkways and later freeways.
Arroyo Seco AVA, California wine region in Monterey County; Arroyo Seco Creek, a watercourse in Sonoma County, California; Arroyo Seco Junior High School, a middle school in Santa Clarita, California; Arroyo Seco Parkway, the first California freeway; Arroyo Seco Raceway, a paved racetrack near Deming, New Mexico
Arroyo Seco [1] is a 6.9-mile-long (11.1 km) [2] tributary stream to Schell Creek in southern Sonoma County, California, United States. In Spanish arroyo seco means "dry stream." Arroyo Seco Creek drains a portion of the western slopes of the southern Mayacamas Mountains .
Arroyo Seco is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) in Monterey County, California, southeast of Monterey Bay.The state's 15th appellation was established on May 16,1983 by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), Treasury after reviewing the petition submitted by the Arroyo Seco Winegrowers and Vintners, an association composed of grape growers and vintners with vineyards, to ...
Arroyo Seco is the least populated in the Sierra Gorda region. Most of its communities have a population of between one and ninety nine inhabitants. The main for the decline is the emigration of much of its population due to poverty.