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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.
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 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 ...
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]
San Joaquin River (273488) – flows from Sacramento County; For tributaries of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, see List of rivers in California. Mount Diablo Creek (234334) Hastings Slough (225003) Seal Creek; Pacheco Creek (230192) Grayson Creek (224526) Murderer's Creek; Walnut Creek (237199) Galindo Creek (224011) Grayson Creek (224526)
The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta portion was added to the model in 1966-1969 to provide information for studies concerning impacts of the deepening of navigation channels, realignment of Delta channels (via the Peripheral Canal), and various flow arrangements on water quality. When completed, the expanded model covered 2 acres (0.81 ha ...
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.
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.