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Watercourses which feed into San Pablo Bay or the Carquinez Strait between Point San Pedro and the Benicia-Martinez Bridge, numbered west to east: Gallinas Creek (224018) South Fork Gallinas Creek (235006) Miller Creek (228730) Novato Creek (229802) Arroyo San Jose (218406) Bowman Canyon (219721) Petaluma River (253749) Black John Slough (219372)
Permanente Creek is a 13.3-mile-long (21.4 km) [3] stream originating on Black Mountain in Santa Clara County, California, United States.Named by early Spanish explorers as Arroyo Permanente or Río Permanente because of its perennial flow, [1] the creek descends the east flank of Black Mountain then courses north through Los Altos and Mountain View, discharging into southwest San Francisco ...
Coyote Creek aerial view from the south in San Jose, from south of Hellyer County Park up to Interstate 280. Although it is called a "creek", Coyote Creek is actually a river whose watershed drains 320 square miles (830 km 2).
California golden beaver family on upper Los Gatos Creek Chinook salmon spawning on Los Gatos Creek in 1996 by U. S. Highway 17. Beaver dams on upper Los Gatos Creek. Note dead conifer(s) reflected in pool and in background are critical for cavity-nesting birds like wood ducks, American kestrels, mergansers, Pacific-slope flycatchers, tree swallows, owls, etc. Beaver and dam on lower Los Gatos ...
In March 1995, flooding of this river around the San Jose Arena caused the cancellation of a San Jose Sharks game, the only rainout in the history of the National Hockey League. [33] This flood, like most Guadalupe River floods, was triggered by undersized bridges, in this case the Julian Street Bridge. The river has flooded 15 times since ...
An extensive list of the freshwater fish found in California, including both native and introduced species. [1 ... River Lamprey: Lampetra ayresl: Pit-Klamath Brook ...
Guadalupe Creek is a 10.5 miles (16.9 km) northward-flowing stream originating just east of the peak of Mount Umunhum in Santa Clara County, California, United States.It courses along the northwestern border of Almaden Quicksilver County Park in the Cañada de los Capitancillos before joining Los Alamitos Creek after the latter exits Lake Almaden.
The earliest known inhabitants on the Santa Clara Valley are the Ohlone people, who had eight distinct languages and tribes in the coastal region. [13] [14] Mission Santa Clara de Asís, which had control over a vast tract of land stretching from Palo Alto to Gilroy, was founded by Franciscans in 1777. [14]