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The Salinas Valley (Spanish: Valle de Salinas) [1] [2] is one of the major valleys and most productive agricultural regions in California. [3] It is located west of the San Joaquin Valley and south of San Francisco Bay and the Santa Clara Valley .
Salinas Founders Day is an annual event held since 1869, that celebrates the history of Salinas. The 2017 event was held at the Salinas Train Station Plaza in downtown Salinas, and included tours of the First Mayor's House and the Monterey and Salinas Valley Railroad Museum, music, and historical talks. [63]
The Salinas River (Rumsen: ua kot taiauaÄorx) [6] is the longest river of the Central Coast region of California, running 175 miles (282 km) and draining 4,160 square miles (10,800 km 2). [7] It flows north-northwest and drains the Salinas Valley that slices through the central California Coast Ranges south of Monterey Bay. [3]
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 Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital (now Salinas Valley Health Medical Center) opened on April 20, 1953, with 138 beds and 145 employees and physicians. The medical center offered operating rooms, a physical therapy unit, pathology and radiology labs, and a pediatric unit with a nursery and for new fathers, a “pacing room”.
Salinas Valley (3 C, 46 P) San Fernando Valley (10 C, 89 P) San Gabriel Valley (10 C, 105 P) San Joaquin Valley (16 C, 158 P) Sonoma Valley (2 C, 27 P)
Shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday, Robert Turnstall, 64, was attacked by another inmate in a recreation yard at Salinas Valley State Prison, officials said. He was pronounced dead just after 9:20 a.m.
The Salinas Valley — a large valley and significant agricultural region, in northern California. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out ...