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The Sacramento and San Joaquin River systems drain the western slope of the Sierra Nevada and most of the Central Valley, forming the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta before emptying into Suisun Bay; together, they are the largest river system in California.
S. Sacramento River; Salinas River (California) Salmon River (California) Salt River (California) San Antonio River (California) San Benito River; San Joaquin River
The Sacramento River (Spanish: Río Sacramento) is the principal river of Northern California in the United States and is the largest river in California. [9] Rising in the Klamath Mountains, the river flows south for 400 miles (640 km) before reaching the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and San Francisco Bay.
Toggle Northern California subsection. 1.1 Central California. ... 1.3 North Coast. 1.4 Sacramento Valley. 1.5 Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. 1.6 San Francisco ...
1838 map from Britannica 7th edition, when the river was called Buenaventura River. View of the American River from below the Guy West Bridge on the Sacramento State campus. The American River is a 30-mile-long (50 km) river in California that runs from the Sierra Nevada mountain range to its confluence with the Sacramento River in downtown ...
The river was originally known as the "McLeod River", after the Hudson's Bay Company hunter and trapper Alexander Roderick McLeod who explored it during the winter of 1829-1830. [8] By the 1860s, the spelling "McCloud" was widely used, likely because that was the conventional American spelling of the Scottish name, and perhaps in part to honor ...
Northern California received the last round of rain and snow-producing storms on Thursday evening, after the atmospheric river event on Tuesday led to at least two confirmed deaths in Sonoma ...
The North Yuba River (also called the North Fork Yuba River) is the main tributary of the Yuba River in northern California in the United States. The river is about 61 miles (98 km) long [4] and drains from the Sierra Nevada westwards towards the foothills between the mountains and the Sacramento Valley.