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Mount Whitney is the highest summit of the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States.. This is a complete list of the 12 summits with elevation higher than 14,000 feet (4,267 m) in the U.S. state of California, with at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) of topographic prominence.
The undeveloped hill areas are part of California's chaparral and woodlands ecoregion – with montane chaparral and woodlands and Oak savannas habitats. Their chaparral , grassland , and oak woodland plant communities evolved with wildfires , with some species of their native plants dependent on natural fires to regenerate and thrive.
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Oak Hills, San Bernardino County, California Oak Hills is a census-designated place in the Victor Valley of the Mojave Desert , within San Bernardino County , California .
The following is a list of mountain passes and gaps in California.California is geographically diverse with numerous roads and railways traversing within its borders. In the middle of the U.S. state lies the California Central Valley, bounded by the coastal mountain ranges in the west, the Sierra Nevada to the east, the Cascade Range in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south.
The San Joaquin Hills are a low mountain range of the Peninsular Ranges System, located in coastal Orange County, California. [1]They extend in a northwest–southeast direction, starting in the northwest in Newport Beach at the southern edge of the Los Angeles Basin, and extending southeast to San Juan Capistrano.
The Berkeley Hills are a range of the Pacific Coast Ranges, and overlook the northeast side of the valley that encompasses San Francisco Bay.They were previously called the "Contra Costa Range/Hills" [2] [3] (from the original Spanish Sierra de la Contra Costa), but with the establishment of Berkeley and the University of California, the name was updated by geographers and gazetteers.
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of California. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: