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Estrella River, San Lorenzo Creek. The Salinas River ( Rumsen: ua kot taiauaÄorx) [ 6] is the longest river of the Central Coast region of California, running 175 miles (282 km) and draining 4,160 square miles (10,800 km 2 ). [ 7] It flows north-northwest and drains the Salinas Valley that slices through the central California Coast Ranges ...
Draining 275 square miles (710 km 2), the Arroyo Seco River is the last major tributary of the Salinas River that enters before it reaches the Pacific.Most of the watershed lies in the rugged coastal range areas southwest of Greenfield and Soledad, and the drainage divide runs along the crest of the Santa Lucia Mountains to the west and the lower Sierra de Salinas to the northeast.
The San Antonio River, which feeds Lake San Antonio and is also a Salinas River tributary, mirrors the Nacimiento's path several miles to the northeast. About 46 percent of the watershed is agriculture and rangeland, with another 33.7 percent classified as open space, recreational or rural land.
As of 6:15 p.m. Monday, the Salinas River was at 31.2 feet in Paso Robles — more than 2 feet above flood stage of 29 feet, according to the NWS’s Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service.
Marsh Creek. Mokelumne River (jump to tributaries) Old River (side channel of San Joaquin River) Middle River (side channel of San Joaquin River) Bear Creek. Calaveras River (jump to tributaries) Mormon Slough (distributary of Calaveras River) French Camp Slough. Littlejohns Creek.
Santa Margarita Lake. Santa Margarita Lake, also called Salinas Reservoir, is a lake several miles southeast of the town of Santa Margarita in San Luis Obispo County, California. The lake was created by the building of Salinas Dam on the southern end of the Salinas River, very close to the river's origin in the Santa Lucia Range.
Herbeto Estrada rescues his two birds from his home along Salinas Road in Pajaro, Calif., on Tuesday. ... The increased flow from the spillway is adding more water to the river and tributaries ...
Rivers of Monterey County, California. Rivers of San Luis Obispo County, California. Drainage basins of the Pacific Ocean. Monterey Bay. Salinas Valley. Rivers of Northern California. Rivers of Southern California. Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata.