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The Sierra Azul is a mountain range in Santa Clara County, California. [1] It is the southern half of the Santa Cruz Mountains range, which is divided into two parts by California Highway 17 into what the colonizing Spanish called the Sierra Morena or "Brown Mountains" to the north and the Sierra Azul or "Blue Mountains" to the south.
The preserve is named for the Sierra Azul or "Blue Mountains", the name the colonizing Spanish used for the half of the Santa Cruz Mountains south of today's California Highway 17. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The park features the peaks of Mount Umunhum 3,486 feet (1,063 m), [ 5 ] Mount Thayer 3,478 feet (1,060 m), [ 6 ] and El Sombroso peak 2,999 feet ...
Mount Umunhum (/ ˈ ʌ m ə n ʌ m / UH-mə-num) is a peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, located in Santa Clara County, California.It is the fourth-highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, after Loma Prieta, Crystal Peak, and Mount Chual.
Hicks Creek begins on the north slope of El Sombroso [10] in the southern Santa Cruz Mountains, about 2 miles (3.2 km) north-northwest of Mt. Umunhum. [11] [12] The southern Santa Cruz Mountains were originally named by the Spanish as the Sierra Azul or "Blue Mountains", [13] which is the namesake for the Sierra Azul Open Space District.
The northernmost portion of the Santa Cruz Mountains, north of Half Moon Bay Road , is known as Montara Mountain; the middle portion is the Sierra Morena, which includes a summit called Sierra Morena, [3] and extends south to a gap at Lexington Reservoir; south of the gap, the mountain range is known as the Sierra Azul. [4] [5]
The Los Gatos Creek sub watershed drains 55.1 square miles (143 km 2). [18] Los Gatos Creek originates at 2,350 feet (720 m) on Loma Prieta Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains and flows west to the minor Williams Reservoir above Lake Elsman (also a reservoir formed by Austrian Dam), where it is joined from the north by Austrian Gulch. Its next ...
Los Gatos is located at (37.236044, −121. ... The El Sereno Open Space Preserve and the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve open the top and upper flanks of each of ...
The historic watershed can be viewed in the Thompson and West 1876 maps. [7] [15] The Guadalupe River watershed today drains an area of 171 square miles (440 km 2). Below its origination at the confluence of Guadalupe Creek and Los Alamitos Creek, the mainstem is joined by three other tributaries: Ross, Canoas, and Los Gatos Creeks. [16]