The Central Coast is an area of California, roughly spanning the coastal region between Point Mugu and Monterey Bay.It lies northwest of Los Angeles County and south of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, and includes the rugged, undeveloped stretch of coastline known as Big Sur. From south to north, there are six counties that make up the Central Coast: Ventura, …

Central California is generally thought of as the middle third of the state, north of Southern California, which includes Los Angeles, and south of Northern California, which includes San Francisco.It includes the northern portion of the San Joaquin Valley (which itself is the southern portion of the Central Valley, beginning at the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta), part of …

The North Coast of California (also called the Redwood Empire or the Redwood Coast in reference to the dense redwood forests throughout the region) is a region in Northern California that lies on the Pacific coast between San Francisco Bay and the Oregon border. It commonly includes Mendocino, Humboldt, and Del Norte counties and sometimes includes two counties …

The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California.It is 40–60 mi (60–100 km) wide and runs approximately 450 mi (720 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific coast of the state.It covers approximately 18,000 sq mi (47,000 km 2), about 11% of California's land area.

The Coast Ranges of California span 400 miles (644 km) from Del Norte or Humboldt County, California, south to Santa Barbara County. The other three coastal California mountain ranges are the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges and the Klamath Mountains.. Physiographically, they are a section of the larger Pacific Border province, which in turn is part of the larger Pacific …

The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail company chartered by U.S. Congress in 1862 to build a railroad eastwards from Sacramento, California, to complete the western part of the "First transcontinental railroad" in North America.Incorporated in 1861, CPRR ceased operation in 1885 when it was acquired by Southern Pacific Railroad as a leased line.

Mariposa County (/ ˌ m ær ɪ ˈ p oʊ z ə,-s ə / ()) is a county in the U.S. state of California.As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the population was 17,131. The county seat is Mariposa. It is located in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, north of Fresno, east of Merced, and southeast of Stockton.. The county's eastern section is the central portion of Yosemite National Park.

Explanation for rarity. There are two basic reasons why tropical cyclones rarely strike California at tropical storm intensity or higher: Cold sea surface temperatures, and the usual upper level steering winds in the eastern Pacific, with sea surface temperatures being more important.. Tropical cyclones usually require very warm ocean water to depth, generally above 26.5 °C (80 …

The Miwok lived in small bands without centralized political authority before contact with European Americans in 1769. They had domesticated dogs and cultivated tobacco, but were otherwise hunter-gatherers.. Cuisine. The Sierra Miwok harvested acorns from the California Black Oak.In fact, the modern-day extent of the California Black Oak forests in some areas of …

Buena Park (Buena, Spanish for "Good") is a city in Orange County, California, United States.As of the 2020 census its population was 84,034. It is the location of several tourist attractions, namely Knott's Berry Farm.It is about 12 miles (20 km) northwest of downtown Santa Ana, the county seat, and is within the Los Angeles metropolitan area