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The Sacramento and San Joaquin River systems drain the western slope of the Sierra Nevada and most of the Central Valley, forming the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta before emptying into Suisun Bay; together, they are the largest river system in California.
Bodies of water of California (11 C, 2 P) C. ... Pages in category "Landforms of California" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
California's geography is largely defined by its central feature—the Central Valley, a huge, fertile valley between the coastal mountain ranges and the Sierra Nevada. The northern part of the Central Valley is called the Sacramento Valley , after its main river, and the southern part is called the San Joaquin Valley / ˌ s æ n w ɑː ˈ k ...
Lists of Landforms of California. Pages in category "Lists of landforms of California" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
[24] [25] About half the total river flow in the state passes through this region, from which water is exported to other areas of the San Joaquin Valley, Southern California and portions of the Bay area to supply some 1,130,000 acres (1,770 sq mi; 4,600 km 2) of farmland and 23 million people in central and Southern California. [26]
Bodies of water of California by county (61 C) Beaches of California by county (17 C) ... Landforms of Ventura County, California (6 C, 18 P) Y. Landforms of Yolo ...
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
Coastal California is heavily influenced by east–west distances to the dominant cold California Current as well as microclimates.Due to hills and coast ranges having strong meteorological effects, summer and winter temperatures (other than occasional heat waves) are heavily moderated by ocean currents and fog with strong seasonal lags compared to interior valleys as little as 10 mi (16 km) away.