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This is a route-map template for the Sacramento River, a waterway in the United States.. For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
It joins the Sacramento River south of Hamilton City and west of Chico at Sacramento river mile 190 (kilometer 306). [18] The average unimpaired runoff of Stony Creek was 422,000 acre-feet (0.521 km 3) for the period 1921 to 2003, with a maximum of 1,435,000 acre-feet (1.770 km 3) in 1983 and a minimum of 17,000 acre-feet (0.021 km 3) in 1977. [19]
The Sacramento River (Spanish: Río Sacramento) is the principal river of Northern California in the United States and is the largest river in California. [9] Rising in the Klamath Mountains , the river flows south for 400 miles (640 km) before reaching the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and San Francisco Bay .
The Capay Diversion Dam, west of Capay, diverts water for distribution throughout Yolo County using a network of canals. At the end of the Capay Valley, near Esparto, Cache Creek runs east into Sacramento Valley, ending in a settling basin east of Woodland, the overflow of which runs into the Sacramento River through a flood control canal.
Clear Creek is the first major Sacramento River tributary downstream of the Shasta Dam. [ 6 ] Clear Creek originates in the Trinity Mountains , between Shasta Lake and Trinity Lake in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest , and flows into Whiskeytown Lake reservoir, impounded by Whiskeytown Dam .
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Cow Creek is a tributary of the Sacramento River in Shasta County, California. About 46.9 miles (75.5 km) long measured to its longest source, [5] it drains a hilly, rural region at the northern end of the Sacramento Valley east of Redding.
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