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This list of museums in California is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
February 27, 2015(#15000279) Santa Cruz 37°00′38″N122°02′38″W / 37.0106°N 122.044°W / 37.0106; -122.044 (California Powder Works Bridge) Santa Cruz. A 1872 covered bridge that is one of the best-preserved national examples of the Smith truss design. 23.
The Santa Clara Valley (Spanish: Valle de Santa Clara) [ 1 ][ 2 ] is a geologic trough in Northern California that extends 90 miles (140 km) south–southeast from San Francisco to Hollister. The longitudinal valley is bordered on the west by the Santa Cruz Mountains and on the east by the Diablo Range; the two coastal ranges meet south of ...
Winters is a city in rural Yolo County, and the western Sacramento Valley, in northern California, United States.. Winters has a 2024 population of 7,860. Winters is currently growing at a rate of 2.16% annually and its population has increased by 9.24% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 7,195 in 2020.
The Inland Empire is the largest metropolitan area in the United States without a major professional sports team. However, it is part of the Greater Los Angeles area which includes teams in Los Angeles and Orange counties. The area is home to numerous minor league baseball, basketball, and ice hockey teams.
San Diego County (/ ˌ s æ n d i ˈ eɪ ɡ oʊ / ⓘ), officially the County of San Diego, is a county in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of California.As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,298,634; [7] it is the second-most populous county in California and the fifth-most populous in the United States.
06-53000. GNIS feature IDs. 277566, 2411292. Website. www.oaklandca.gov [ 15 ][ 16 ][ 17 ] Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. [ 13 ] A major West Coast port, Oakland is the ...
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...