Loma Prieta is the tallest mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountain Range being 3806 feet high and is located about 15 miles south of San Jose, California. Donald Clark, in his book Santa Cruz County Place Names, reports that the name is of Spanish-Mexican origin and means “a high chaparral covered point that looks black in the distance”.

The Santa Cruz Mountain Range occupies most of the San Francisco Peninsula and stretches south, separating the cities of San Jose and Santa Cruz. A vast array of flora exists in the Santa Cruz Mounatins, with misty redwood forests dominating the northern part of the range, to dense chaparral-covered hillsides in the south.

The region is bounded by the Santa Cruz Mountain range, from the northern boundary of Half Moon Bay and Woodsideto its southern side of Mount Madonna and Watsonville. The appellation encompasses some 322,000 acres (1,300 km 2) extending through Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.

The Santa Cruz Mountains are a region of great biological diversity, encompassing cool, moist coastal ecosystems as well as warm, dry chaparral. Much of the area in the Santa Cruz mountains is considered temperate rainforest.

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