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The Temecula Valley (Spanish: Valle de Temecula) [1] [2] is a graben rift valley in western Riverside County, California. The Temecula Valley is one of the graben valleys making up the Elsinore Trough , created by the Elsinore Fault Zone .
According to Visit Temecula Valley's 2018 economic impact report, in 2018 there was a 26% increase in tourism spending, reaching $1.1 billion spent, up from nearly $900 million spent in 2017. [15] The Temecula Valley is a major tourist destination on weekends. There are over 40 wineries offering public wine tasting. [13]
Temecula (/ t ə ˈ m ɛ k j ʊ l ə /; Spanish: Temécula, ; Luiseño: Temeekunga) is a city in southwestern Riverside County, California, United States.The city had a population of 110,003 as of the 2020 census [7] and was incorporated on December 1, 1989.
The Elsinore Trough is a graben rift valley in Riverside County, southern California. It is created by the Elsinore Fault Zone. It is located between the Santa Ana Mountains to the west, and the Temescal Mountains of the Perris Block and the Temecula Basin to the east. This graben valley is broken into a series of sections by transverse faults.
The village of Temecula originated on a bluff on the south bank of Temecula Creek opposite the old Wolf's Store according to an 1853 survey. [7] In 1948, the owners of the Vail Ranch built a 132-foot-high (40 m) dam on Temecula Creek, Vail Lake Dam, approximately 10 miles (16 km) above the confluence with the Santa Margarita River. Today the ...
Pauba Valley is a valley along the course of Temecula Creek, in Riverside County, California. It heads to the east at 33°30′06″N 117°00′10″W / 33.50167°N 117.00278°W / 33.50167; -117.00278 , the mouth of the gorge of Temecula Creek Canyon at the foot of Oak Mountain
Temecula Basin is a sedimentary basin, which, along with the Aguanga Basin, is part of the Elsinore Fault Zone, in southwestern Riverside County, California. The Temecula Basin is a basin of down faulted Mesozoic basement rock, overlain by late Cenozoic continental sediments.
The creek and town of Murrieta are not named for the bandit, Joaquin Murrieta, but for the pioneer sheep ranchers, Izaquel and Juan Murrieta, who purchased the Rancho Pauba and Rancho Temecula Mexican land grants. His brother returned to Spain, but Juan brought 100,000 sheep to the valley in 1873, using the meadows to feed his herd. [3] [4]