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The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California, United States.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.
It includes the northern portion of the San Joaquin Valley (which itself is the southern portion of the Central Valley, beginning at the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta), part of the Central Coast, the central hills of the California Coast Ranges and the foothills and mountain areas of the central Sierra Nevada.
Political map of California displaying in green Central Valley of California counties. Made from Census map in PD. Date: 24 December 2007: Source: Own work based on: Blank California Map.svg: Author: Thadius856: SVG development
Lake Corcoran (also known as Lake Clyde, after Clyde Wahrhaftig, an American geologist [1]) was an ancient lake that covered the Central Valley of California. Central Valley map. The lake existed in the valleys of the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River, [2] at least as far north as the Sutter Buttes. [3]
California's geography is largely defined by its central feature—the Central Valley, a huge, fertile valley between the coastal mountain ranges and the Sierra Nevada. 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 ...
The State of California passed the Central Valley Project Act in 1933, ... 1949 - Map of Central Valley Cotton producers [301] Mar 30 ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Central Valley (California) (4 C, 22 P) Coachella Valley (16 C, 106 P)
The Sacramento Valley (Spanish: Valle de Sacramento) [2] [3] is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies north of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the Sacramento River. It encompasses all or parts of ten Northern California counties.