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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 .
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 ...
California is in the Nearctic realm. Ecoregions are listed by biome: [1] ... California Central Valley grasslands; Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub
The coast of California from Monterey Bay south to the Mexican border, and inland from San Francisco Bay Area to the Sierra Nevada foothills contain California's Mediterranean ecoregions. This region is divided by the WWF into three California chaparral and woodlands ecoregions, plus the Central Valley grasslands. [7]
Geography of the Central Valley — the major valley of central and northern California. Composed of the San Joaquin Valley south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta area, and the Sacramento Valley north of it.
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.
The California interior chaparral and woodlands ecoregion extends from as far north as Shasta Lake in Northern California to as far south as the Santa Barbara Channel in Southern California. Despite being termed as "inland", this ecoregion features extensive coastline between the Central Coast towns of Goleta and San Simeon , as well as within ...
Tri-Valley Area. Amador Valley; Livermore Valley; San Ramon Valley; Lamorinda; North Bay. Marin County. West Marin; Ross Valley; Wine Country. Napa Valley; Russian River Valley; Sonoma Valley; Telecom Valley; The Peninsula. City and County of San Francisco; San Mateo County; South Bay. Santa Clara Valley. San Jose–Santa Clara County; Silicon ...