{"id":177,"date":"2008-10-04T23:51:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T06:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/04\/magnitude-of-the-central-valley\/"},"modified":"2008-10-04T23:51:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T06:51:38","slug":"magnitude-of-the-central-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/04\/magnitude-of-the-central-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"magnitude of the Central Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hear people all the time talking about the Central Valley, and I thought I had a pretty clear idea of where and what it is — inland of here, a big area where there are a lot of farms plus some of the major inland cities, the nation’s major supplier of various fruit and nut crops. But I’ve never looked at it on the map before — I had no idea how big it really is! Just from looking at Google Maps satellite imagery, it seems to go from Chico to Bakersfield in a huge swath (Wikipedia tells me it’s actually as far north as Redding), where virtually everything is either farm, major natural feature inhibiting farming, or urban area.<\/p>\n

Delightful Wikipedia factoids:
\n“Before California’s massive flood control and aqueduct system was built, the annual snow melt turned much of the valley into an inland lake.”<\/p>\n

“Virtually all non-tropical crops are grown in the Central Valley,” a sentence that sounds not quite as intended when taken out of context. I assume they just mean that unless a crop is tropical, it can be and likely is cultivated in the Central Valley, not that it is exclusively so cultivated.<\/p>\n

Also, the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta is an inverted river delta<\/a>. And the Capitol Corridor train (and other trains on that line) crosses its outlet portion, the Carquinez Strait, on a very cool rail bridge [jpg]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The reason I noticed all this is that I went to Davis this weekend. Davis is also cool, but since I got sidetracked by this whole California geography thing I’ll have to say more about that later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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