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Northern California usually refers to the state's northernmost 48 counties. The main population centers of Northern California include San Francisco Bay Area (which includes the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and the largest city of the region, San Jose), and Sacramento (the state capital) as well as its metropolitan area.
Bodies of water of California (11 C, 2 P) C. ... Pages in category "Landforms of California" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
There are three main deserts in California: the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert. [5]: 408 The Mojave Desert is bounded by the Tehachapi Mountains on the northwest, the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains on the south, and extends eastward to California's borders with Arizona and Nevada; it also forms portions of northwest Arizona.
The Sacramento and San Joaquin River systems drain the western slope of the Sierra Nevada and most of the Central Valley, forming the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta before emptying into Suisun Bay; together, they are the largest river system in California.
California groundwater basins, subbasins, and hydrologic regions. 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]
Bodies of water of California by county (61 C) Beaches of California by county (17 C) ... Landforms of Ventura County, California (6 C, 18 P) Y. Landforms of Yolo ...
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]