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The Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, or California Delta, is an expansive inland river delta and estuary in Northern California. The delta is formed at the western edge of the Central Valley by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and lies just east of where the rivers enter Suisun Bay , which flows into San Francisco ...
A river delta is so named because the shape of the Nile Delta approximates the triangular uppercase Greek letter delta.The triangular shape of the Nile Delta was known to audiences of classical Athenian drama; the tragedy Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus refers to it as the "triangular Nilotic land", though not as a "delta". [8]
Delta_maps.pdf (604 × 339 pixels, file size: 60 KB, MIME type: application/pdf) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
Map of California topography and geomorphic provinces California's major mountain ranges. California is a U.S. state on the western coast of North America.Covering an area of 163,696 sq mi (423,970 km 2), California is among the most geographically diverse states.
An enlargeable map of the state of California. California state names Common name: California. Pronunciation: US: / ˌ k æ l ɪ f ɔː r n j ə, k æ l ɪ f ɔː r n i ə / ⓘ Etymology: Etymology of California; Official name: State of California; Abbreviations and name codes Postal symbol: CA; ISO 3166-2 code: US-CA; Internet second-level ...
USGS aerial imagery of Holland Tract. The Holland Tract is an island in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. [2] [3] It is part of Contra Costa County, California, and managed by Reclamation District 2025.
Lists of Landforms of California. Pages in category "Lists of landforms of California" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
In 1974, the Mexican government designated portions of the upper Gulf and lower Colorado River Delta as a reserve zone. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated over 12,000 km 2 (3,000,000 acres) of Gulf of California and Colorado River Delta Biosphere Reserve as a Biosphere Nature reserve in