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The Arroyo Seco generally has a flow of several cubic feet per second, [13] but periodically it is inundated by torrential floods from its steep, erosion-prone mountain watershed. The reputation of Arroyo Seco floods led the Spanish to site the original Pueblo de Los Ángeles away from the confluence of the Arroyo Seco and the Los Angeles River ...
Draining 275 square miles (710 km 2), the Arroyo Seco River is the last major tributary of the Salinas River that enters before it reaches the Pacific.Most of the watershed lies in the rugged coastal range areas southwest of Greenfield and Soledad, and the drainage divide runs along the crest of the Santa Lucia Mountains to the west and the lower Sierra de Salinas to the northeast.
Arroyo Seco [1] is a 6.9-mile-long (11.1 km) [2] tributary stream to Schell Creek in southern Sonoma County, California, United States. In Spanish arroyo seco means "dry stream." Arroyo Seco Creek drains a portion of the western slopes of the southern Mayacamas Mountains .
Regarding historical fish populations, the Arroyo Seco is the only major Salinas River tributary which has remained undammed and as of 2015, still supported a small remnant population of the threatened Central Coast Steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) that once spawned throughout in the Salinas River watershed.
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Arroyo Seco AVA, California wine region in Monterey County; Arroyo Seco Creek, a watercourse in Sonoma County, California; Arroyo Seco Junior High School, a middle school in Santa Clarita, California; Arroyo Seco Parkway, the first California freeway; Arroyo Seco Raceway, a paved racetrack near Deming, New Mexico
For the first time since 2003, ArroyoFest will close a section of the Arroyo Seco Parkway for people to walk, bike, skate and run. 20 years ago, the Arroyo Seco Parkway turned into a car-free ...
The Arroyo Seco — a seasonal tributary of the Los Angeles River, canyon region, and historic/cultural area in Los Angeles County, Southern California. The 24.9-mile-long (40.1 km) creek flows from headwaters in the San Gabriel Mountains to its confluence with the Los Angeles River .