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Los Altos (/ l ɔː s ˈ æ l t oʊ s / ⓘ; Spanish for "The Heights") is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 31,625 according to the 2020 census .
Adobe Creek, historically San Antonio Creek, is a 14.2-mile-long (22.9 km) [5] northward-flowing stream originating on Black Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains.It courses through the cities of Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, and Palo Alto on its way to the Palo Alto Flood Basin and thence to southwestern San Francisco Bay in Santa Clara County, California, United States.
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 ...
The San Francisco Peninsula is a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. On its northern tip is the City and County of San Francisco. Its southern base is Los Altos and Mountain View, in Santa Clara County, south of Palo Alto and north of Sunnyvale.
The limestone rock found in the Permanente Creek valley and on the summit of Black Mountain is relatively unique in the Bay Area. Microfossils in the limestone deposits suggest that the mountain originated as a seamount at 22 degrees north in the tropical Pacific about 100 million years ago and was transported to Los Altos by the Pacific Plate.
Two years later in 1957 Walker's Los Altos store was sold to, and rebranded as, The Broadway. [3] The Walker's had a "Palm Room" restaurant and coffee shop. JCPenney, two stories plus a basement; Woolworth's, 14,000 square feet (1,300 m 2), with a 52-foot-long lunch counter; Sav-on Drug Store (21,766 square feet (2,022.1 m 2))
Los Angeles 4 121st-tallest building in the United States (tied). Tallest building constructed in Los Angeles in the 1990s. [13] [14] 9 Gas Company Tower: 749 (228) 52 1991 Los Angeles 5 127th-tallest building in the United States. [15] [16] 10 Bank of America Center: 735 (224) 55 1974 Los Angeles 6 144th-tallest building in the United States ...
Cities with the lowest rate of violent crime include the Peninsula cities of Los Altos and Foster City, East Bay cities of San Ramon and Danville, and southern foothill cities of Saratoga and Cupertino. In 2015, 45 Bay Area cities counted zero homicides, the largest of which was Daly City. [165]