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The San Joaquin River (/ ˌ s æ n hw ɑː ˈ k iː n / ⓘ SAN whah-KEEN; Spanish: Río San Joaquín [ˈri.o saŋ xoaˈkin]) is the longest river of Central California.The 366-mile (589 km) long river starts in the high Sierra Nevada and flows through the rich agricultural region of the northern San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suisun Bay, San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean.
[5] [6] In 1880, the first dam on the San Joaquin River was constructed by the Upper San Joaquin Irrigation Company roughly on the present site of Friant Dam. Built of local rock, the dam was an 800-foot (240 m) long, 6-foot (1.8 m) tall structure designed to divert water for the irrigation of 250,000 acres (100,000 ha).
Additional images. San Joaquin River hydrologic region. North Lahontan hydrologic region. Sacramento River hydrologic region. North Coast hydrologic region. See also
Back then, the San Joaquin River and Milburn Pond weren’t connected except during high-water years. That changed during the winter of 1994-95 when flooding breached the berm separating the two ...
Suisun Bay (/ s ə ˈ s uː n / sə-SOON; Wintun for "where the west wind blows") is a shallow tidal estuary (a northeastern extension of the San Francisco Bay) in Northern California. It lies at the confluence of the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River, forming the entrance to the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, an inverted river delta.
Flooded farmland and small islands, located near the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, are viewed from the air in May 2023, near Rio Vista, Calif. (George Rose / Getty Images)
Steamboats operated in California on San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, and Sacramento River as early as November 1847, when the Sitka built by William A. Leidesdorff briefly ran on San Francisco Bay and up the Sacramento River to New Helvetia. After the first discovery of gold in California the first shipping on ...
(Keystone View Co. / FPG / Archive Photos / Getty Images) A rich history. ... Historians believe the vegetable was planted first in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in the 1850s. The region ...