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The Salinas Valley (Spanish: Valle de Salinas) [1] [2] is one of the major valleys and most productive agricultural regions in California. [3] It is located west of the San Joaquin Valley and south of San Francisco Bay and the Santa Clara Valley .
The Salinas Valley is the fort's northern border, the Santa Lucia Mountains bound it on the east, Los Padres National Forest on the west and the Monterey and San Luis Obispo County line on the south. The fort originally comprised 200,000 acres (81,000 hectares), but even at its present size of 167,000 acres (68,000 hectares), it is the largest ...
It was the hometown of writer and Nobel laureate John Steinbeck (1902–68), who set many of his stories in the Salinas Valley and Monterey. [14] Salinas has a high Hispanic proportion, which at 79.6%, is the highest proportion of Hispanic Americans out of any city in California, and 8th largest overall in the nation. [15]
The Diablo Range is a mountain range in the California Coast Ranges subdivision of the Pacific Coast Ranges in northern California, United States. It stretches from the eastern San Francisco Bay Area at its northern end to the Salinas Valley area at its southern end.
Sierra de Salinas is a mountain range in the California Coast Ranges, located in central Monterey County, California. [1] The range is a part of the Salinian Block and lies between the Santa Lucia Range to the west and the Salinas Valley , Salinas River , and Gabilan Range to the east.
Tri-Valley Area. Amador Valley; Livermore Valley; San Ramon Valley; Lamorinda; North Bay. Marin County. West Marin; Ross Valley; Wine Country. Napa Valley; Russian River Valley; Sonoma Valley; Telecom Valley; The Peninsula. City and County of San Francisco; San Mateo County; South Bay. Santa Clara Valley. San Jose–Santa Clara County; Silicon ...
The Salinas Valley — a large valley and significant agricultural region, in northern California. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Pinnacles National Park – National park in California, United States Mount Pinos – Mountain of the Transverse Ranges in California, United States Much of the mountainous terrain along the Salinian Block is protected under the US Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service , most notably within Los Padres National Forest , Julia ...