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The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California. It is 40–60 mi (60–100 km) wide and runs approximately 450 mi (720 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific coast of the state .
Steinbeck set most of his work in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the Coast Ranges region. George Sterling, poet and playwright. Sterling was a prominent figure in San Francisco and Carmel-by-the-Sea's bohemian communities in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Amy Tan, novelist.
There is also a large population of Assyrian descent living in the Central Valley, with large communities in Modesto, Ceres, and Turlock, as well as throughout the Central Coast and the California Desert (i.e. the Coachella and Imperial Valleys). San Diego has one of the largest concentrations of Chaldean-Assyrian immigrants in the United States.
The 10-day “Klan Fiesta” at the Fresno fairgrounds drew 50,000 attendees from throughout California and the Southwest.
“In our party, it’s important to have Latino leadership. I’ll say it loud and proud.”
The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters. University of Nevada Press, 1993. ISBN 0-87417-225-X; Igler, David; Clark Davis. The Human Tradition in California. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. ISBN 0-8420-5027-2; La Chapelle, Peter. Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California ...
The northern part of the Central Valley is called the Sacramento Valley, after its main river, and the southern part is called the San Joaquin Valley / ˌ s æ n w ɑː ˈ k iː n /, after its main river. The whole Central Valley is watered by mountain-fed rivers (notably the San Joaquin, Kings, and Sacramento) that drain to the San Francisco ...
For Central Valley residents, high-speed rail will be a reality in just a few years. Construction of the rail line is transforming local economies, and residents say they see a broad new horizon ...