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The Sacramento Valley ( Spanish: Valle de Sacramento) [ 2][ 3] is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies north of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the Sacramento River. It encompasses all or parts of ten Northern California counties. Although many areas of the Sacramento Valley are ...
[9] [10] Sacramento is the seat of the California Legislature and the Governor of California. Sacramento is also the cultural and economic core of the Greater Sacramento area, which at the 2020 census had a population of 2,680,831, [8] the fourth-largest metropolitan area in California. [11]
Sacramento County, California. / 38.45; -121.35. Sacramento County ( / ˌsækrəˈmɛntoʊ / ⓘ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,585,055. [ 6] Its county seat is Sacramento, [ 7] which has been the state capital of California since 1854. Sacramento County is the central county of ...
Sacramento County, since 2016, has housed foster teens in a neighborhood with “easy access to vice and crime, in office buildings with no kitchens or showers, and in a jail-like former youth ...
Human trafficking in California is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, and forced labor as it occurs in the state of California. Human trafficking, widely recognized as a modern-day form of slavery, includes. "the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt ...
Staff. 2,021.99 ( FTE) [ 1] Student–teacher ratio. 23.06:1 [ 1] Other information. Website. www .scusd .edu. Sacramento City Unified School District ( SCUSD) is a public school system in Sacramento, California. With 47,900 students in 81 schools, it is the eleventh largest school district in California.
Of the 58 counties in California, 14 are governed under a charter. They are Alameda, Butte, El Dorado, Fresno, Los Angeles, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Tehama. [ 6] Nine counties in California are named for saints, tied with Louisiana for the largest number.
The history of Sacramento, California, began with its founding by Samuel Brannan and John Augustus Sutter, Jr. in 1848 around an embarcadero that his father, John Sutter, Sr. constructed at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers a few years prior. Sacramento was named after the Sacramento River, which forms its western border.