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El Palo Alto, circa 2004. El Palo Alto (Spanish: 'the tall stick' [1]) is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) located on the banks of the San Francisquito Creek in Palo Alto, California, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area. The namesake of the city and a historical landmark, El Palo Alto is 1084–1085 years old and stands 110 feet (34 m) tall.
Palo Alto is named after El Palo Alto, a historic 110 ft tall (34 m) California Redwood on the banks of the San Francisquito Creek, sighted and named by the Portolá expedition in 1769. Before the arrival of Europeans, the Ohlone lived on the San Francisco peninsula; in particular, the Puichon Ohlone lived in the Palo Alto area.
The tree from which Palo Alto takes its name, El Palo Alto, stands on the banks of the creek. In 1857, the United States Coast Survey (USCS) identified 1,142 acres (462 ha) of tidal marsh at the mouth of the creek. There were also two large [63-and-118-acre (25 and 48 ha)] willow groves adjacent to the tidal marsh associated with high ...
El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, sometimes translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.
El Palo Alto: Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) Palo Alto, USA A landmark that gave the city of Palo Alto its name. It stood up above its surroundings in a wide flat area and thus could be seen from far away in all directions, as far back as 1769 when Spanish explorers camped underneath it.
Palo Alto: Santa Clara: Bolsa del Pajaro: 1837 Juan Alvarado: Sebastian Rodriguez 5,496 acres (2,224 ha) 283 SD Watsonville: Santa Cruz: Aguajito (Villagrana) 1837 Juan B. Alvarado: Miguel Villagrana 44.32 acres (18 ha) 282 SD Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz: Los Guilicos: 1837 Juan Alvarado: John Wilson 18,834 acres (7,622 ha) 94 ND Kenwood: Sonoma ...
The rout of General Arista's army at Resaca de la Palma also relieved the Mexican siege of Fort Texas, where a garrison had been left following Taylor's move to Point Isabel prior to the Battle of Palo Alto. [4] Only eight miles from Palo Alto and four miles from Resaca de la Palma, the garrison was well within earshot of the fighting and the ...
El Palomar, Spain. 30 languages. Aragonés; ... El Palomar is a municipality in the comarca of Vall d'Albaida in the Valencian Community, Spain. References