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Murrieta / m jʊər i ˈ ɛ t ə / is a city in southwestern Riverside County, California, United States.The population of Murrieta was 110,949 as of the 2020 census. [6] Murrieta experienced a 133.7% population increase between 2000 and 2010, making Murrieta one of the fastest-growing cities in the state during that period.
Murrieta Creek runs 13 miles (21 km) southeasterly through southwestern Riverside County, California, United States, through the cities of Wildomar, Murrieta, and Temecula, ending 0.5 miles (0.80 km) southeast of the city center of Temecula, where it has its confluence with Temecula Creek and forms the head of the Santa Margarita River.
Temecula (/ t ə ˈ m ɛ k j ʊ l ə /; Spanish: Temécula, ; Luiseño: Temeekunga) is a city in southwestern Riverside County, California, United States.The city had a population of 110,003 as of the 2020 census [7] and was incorporated on December 1, 1989.
The Temecula Valley (Spanish: Valle de Temecula) [1] [2] is a graben rift valley in western Riverside County, California. The Temecula Valley is one of the graben valleys making up the Elsinore Trough , created by the Elsinore Fault Zone .
French Valley is a region located in southwestern Riverside County, near the cities and communities of Hemet, Winchester, Murrieta, and Temecula in the state of California, United States. It is part of the Plains of Leon, contiguous with the Perris Plain, that drains into the Temecula Basin by means of tributaries of the Santa Margarita River.
Draining 1,922 square kilometres (742 sq mi), the Santa Margarita Watershed is the second largest river basin on the Southern California coastal plain. [13] The upper watershed consists of the 575 square kilometres (222 sq mi) Murrieta Creek subwatershed and the 948 square kilometres (366 sq mi) Temecula Creek subwatershed.
A later study by Rene Engel, considers the Sedco Hills and the other mountains that extend to the southeast of the San Jacinto River east of Lake Elsinore and north of the Temecula Basin, in Murrieta to be part of the same range forming the natural continuation of the mountains. [5]
Temecula Creek, formerly known as the Temecula River, [2] runs 32.6 miles (52.5 km) [3] through southern Riverside County, California, United States, past the rural communities of Radec and Aguanga, and ending 0.5 miles (0.80 km) southeast of the original city center of Temecula. The creek is filled with boulders and is typically dry and sandy.