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I, one that was specifically adapted to the San Joaquin Valley.
Cismontane chaparral (" this side of the mountain ") refers to a chaparral ecosystem in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Biome in California, growing on the western ( and coastal ) sides of large mountain range systems, such as: western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in the San Joaquin Valley foothills, western slopes of the Peninsular Ranges and California Coast Ranges, and south-southwest slopes of the Transverse Ranges in the Central Coast and Southern California regions.
Oil in the San Joaquin Basin was first discovered at the Coalinga field in 1890.
By 1901, the San Joaquin Basin was the main oil-producing region of California, and it remains so in the 21st century, with huge oil fields including the Midway-Sunset, Kern River, and Belridge fields producing much of California's onshore oil.
Cagney denied this, and Lincoln Steffens, husband of the letter's writer, backed up this denial, asserting that the accusation stemmed solely from Cagney's donation to striking cotton workers in the San Joaquin Valley.
San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean.
Despite its urban and industrial character, San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta remain perhaps California's most important ecological habitats.
In the 1860s and continuing into the early 20th century, miners dumped staggering quantities of mud and gravel from hydraulic mining operations into the upper Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers.
In the last years of the nineteenth-and first decades of the twentieth-centuries, at the behest of local political officials and following Congressional orders, the US Army Corps began dredging the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and the deep channels of San Francisco Bay.
* Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta ( California )
The Central Valley was becoming a heavily developed irrigation farming region, and cities along the state's Pacific coast and the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers were growing rapidly, requiring ways to manage the river's water to prevent flooding ( and resulting economic loss ) on one hand, and to ensure a consistent supply of it on the other.
Alexander of the Army Corps of Engineers had written in his surveys of the Central Valley's hydrology and irrigation systems of a great network of pumps and canals that would take water from the water-rich Sacramento River basin into drought-prone South and Central California, especially the San Joaquin Valley.
From its origin at the Delta the canal runs some southwards through the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, providing irrigation water to farmlands along its length.
The Sacramento and San Joaquin also have the southermost runs of five species of anadromous fish.
The western side of the campus borders the San Joaquin Freshwater Marsh Reserve, through which Campus Drive connects UCI to the 405 freeway.
The northern and eastern sides of UCI are adjacent to Irvine proper ; the eastern side of the campus is delineated by Bonita Canyon Road, which turns into Culver Drive at its northern terminus and offers links to the San Joaquin Hills Toll Road and 405 freeway, respectively.
Additionally, UCI's southern boundary is adjacent to the San Joaquin Transportation Corridor.
Another lobe moved west over the crest of the Sierra Nevada and into the drainage of the San Joaquin River.
* Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta
These streams combine into the Merced River, which flows out from the western end of the valley, down the rest of its canyon to the San Joaquin Valley.
This and other missions resulted in Chief Teneiya and the Awaneechee spending months on a reservation in the San Joaquin Valley.
It also operates regional initiatives such as the Everglades, San Francisco Bay, the San Joaquin River, the Channel Islands of California, and the New York / New Jersey Harbor-Bight.

San and River
Rivers draining into the Lake Nicaragua or the San Juan River ( Rio San Juan ), whose waters eventually drains into the Caribbean, include:
* San Carlos River ( Rio San Carlos )
In the eastern half of the country, the San Juan River forms the northern border with Nicaragua.
Pollen samples recovered near a fossilized hadrosaur femur recovered in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone at the San Juan River indicate that the animal lived during the Tertiary, approximately 64. 5 Ma ( about 1 million years after the K – Pg extinction event ).
Its mouth at the Rio Negro, an affluent of the Amazon River, is near the town of San Carlos and is above sea level.
The Casiquiare canal connects the upper Orinoco, 9 miles below the mission of Esmeraldas, with the Rio Negro affluent of the Amazon River near the town of San Carlos.
* 2010: The Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas and River Ridge Sports Complex, Oxnard, California
The lake drains to the Caribbean Sea via the San Juan River, historically making the lakeside city of Granada, Nicaragua, an Atlantic port although it is closer to the Pacific.
It had been presumed that the sharks were trapped within the lake, but this was found to be incorrect in the late 1960s, when it was discovered that they were able to jump along the rapids of the San Juan River ( which connects Lake Nicaragua and the Caribbean Sea ), almost like salmon.
* 1811 – Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolás on the River Plate.
The Alamo and River Walk scenes in San Antonio were shot on-location.
** Montezuma Creek ( San Juan River )
On November 17, 1909, two Americans were executed by order of Zelaya after the two men confessed to having laid a mine in the San Juan River with the intention of blowing up the Diamante.
Such construction of a canal along the route using the San Juan River was proposed in the early colonial era.
* from San Juan de Nicaragua, up the San Juan River — with improvements and new locks — to the lake
A survey from the 1830s stated that the canal would be long and would generally follow the San Juan River from the Atlantic to Lake Nicaragua, then go through a series of locks and tunnels from the lake to the Pacific.
But Costa Rica protested that Costa Rican rights to the San Juan River had been infringed, and El Salvador maintained that the proposed naval base would affect both it and Honduras.
After cutting through Ecuador, the Pastaza passes into Peru at the village of Hito Zoilaluz on Isla Zoilaluz and flows south into the Marañón River near San Ramón.
Paris was on the Central National Road of the Republic of Texas, which ran from San Antonio north through Paris to cross the Red River.
* Railroad Canyon, a canyon around some of the San Jacinto River, California
Specifically, both rivers flow into Suisun Bay, which flows through the Carquinez Strait to meet with the Napa River at the entrance to San Pablo Bay, which connects at its south end to San Francisco Bay.

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