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The Sacramento River (Spanish: Río Sacramento) is the principal river of Northern California in the United States and is the largest river in California. [9] Rising in the Klamath Mountains, the river flows south for 400 miles (640 km) before reaching the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and San Francisco Bay.
The only other major river delta in the world located this far inland is the Pearl River Delta in China. [7] The main source rivers include the Sacramento River from the north, the San Joaquin from the southeast, and the Calaveras and Mokelumne Rivers from the east. The Calaveras and Mokelumne are both tributaries of the San Joaquin River.
This is a list of the crossings of the Sacramento River from its mouth at Suisun Bay upstream to the Ribbon Bridge in Redding. There are many more bridges north of this point up to Lake Siskiyou, immediately east of the source of the river at the confluence of the South and Middle Forks of the Sacramento River. All locations are in California.
The Sacramento River and its tributaries are a significant part of the geography of the Sacramento Valley. Rising in the various mountain ranges (the various Northern Coast Ranges to the west, the southern Siskiyou Mountains to the north, and the northern Sierra Nevada to the east) that define the shape of the valley, they provide water for agricultural, industrial, residential, and recreation ...
Shasta Dam (called Kennett Dam [3] before its construction) is a concrete arch-gravity dam [4] across the Sacramento River in Northern California in the United States.At 602 feet (183 m) high, it is the eighth-tallest dam in the United States.
Opening up a view to the Sacramento River. The riverfront is mostly hidden now because three waterfront restaurants block the view from pedestrians: Rio City Cafe, Joe’s Crab Shack and the Delta ...
Sacramento high risk for river flooding. The American River drains more than 2,100 square miles of watershed down through a flood control system that protects over 530,000 people and 83,000 ...
The Feather River is the principal tributary of the Sacramento River, in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. The river's main stem is about 73 miles (117 km) long. [ 7 ] Its length to its most distant headwater tributary is just over 210 miles (340 km). [ 7 ]