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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 .
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]
Central Valley (California) (4 C, 22 P) Coachella Valley (16 C, 106 P) ... Salinas Valley; Saline Valley; San Bernardino Valley; San Felipe Valley, California;
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.
The San Ardo Oil Field From the Coast Starlight. View of the San Ardo Oil Field, with the Salinas River in the foreground. A familiar sight to travelers on U.S. Highway 101 between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the oil field is located about midway between Paso Robles and King City, in the southern part of Monterey County, at the Alvarado Road exit from U.S. 101.
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. The following list comprises the mountain ranges of U.S. State of California designated by the United States Board on Geographic Names and cataloged in the Geographic Names Information System .
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 ...
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.