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Vallecito Valley
Vallecito Valley is a valley in San Diego County, California. ''Vallecito'', its original name, is a Spanish word meaning "little valley". The mouth of the valley is at an elevation of , at the lower end of the cienega southeast of the old Vallecito Stage Station, where Vallecito Creek leaves the valley. Its head is at an elevation of 3,200 feet at at the foot of the Sawtooth Range that divides it from Mason Valley. References Valleys of San Diego County, California East County (San Diego County) {{SanDiegoCountyCA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valley
A valley is an elongated low area often running between Hill, hills or Mountain, mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over a very long period. Some valleys are formed through erosion by glacier, glacial ice. These glaciers may remain present in valleys in high mountains or polar areas. At lower latitudes and altitudes, these glaciation, glacially formed valleys may have been created or enlarged during ice ages but now are ice-free and occupied by streams or rivers. In desert areas, valleys may be entirely dry or carry a watercourse only rarely. In karst, areas of limestone bedrock, dry valleys may also result from drainage now taking place cave, underground rather than at the surface. Rift valleys arise principally from tectonics, earth movements, rather than erosion. Many different types of valleys are described by geographers, using terms th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vallecito, San Diego County, California
Vallecito, in San Diego County, California is an oasis of cienegas and salt grass along Vallecito Creek and a former settlement on the edge of the Colorado Desert in the Vallecito Valley. Its Spanish name is translated as "little valley". Vallecito was located at the apex of the gap in the Carrizo Badlands created by Carrizo Creek and its wash in its lower reach, to which Vallecito Creek is a tributary. The springs of Vallecito, like many in the vicinity, are a product of the faults that run along the base of the Peninsular Ranges to the west. Once a seasonal village of the native Kumeyaay people, on a trail across the desert from the Colorado River, this oasis became a crucial stopping place for Spanish and then Mexican travelers to recover from the desert crossing between Sonora and New Mexico to California. Later it also served the same function for American soldiers, 49ers and their herds of animals being driven to the goldfields on the Southern Emigrant Trail. The non ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vallecito Creek (California)
Vallecito Creek is a tributary stream of Carrizo Creek, in San Diego County, California. Vallecito Creek has its source at the southeast end of Mason Valley as a continuation of Vallecito Wash Vallecito Wash is a wash part of Vallecito Creek, a tributary stream of Carrizo Creek, in San Diego County, California. Vallecito Wash has its source on the east side of the Cuyamaca Mountains, at an elevation of , at the junction of Oriflamme .... From its mouth the creek arises and flows southeastward about , through '' Vallecito'' (Little Valley) and Carrizo Valley to its confluence with Carrizo Creek. References Rivers of San Diego County, California Rivers of Southern California {{California-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sawtooth Range (San Diego County)
The Sawtooth Mountains are a mountain range of the Peninsular Ranges system, located in eastern San Diego County, California. The Sawtooth Mountains are within the western Colorado Desert, southwest of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and the Tierra Blanca Mountains. The Jacumba Mountains lie to the southeast.''Agua Caliente Springs, California,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1997 The Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness The Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness is a federal wilderness area of located in the Sawtooth Mountains in eastern San Diego County, California. It is located in the Colorado Desert, south of Borrego Springs, near Anza Borrego Desert State Pa ... is located within the range. References Mountain ranges of the Colorado Desert Mountain ranges of San Diego County, California Peninsular Ranges {{SanDiegoCountyCA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mason Valley (California)
Mason Valley is a valley in San Diego County, California. Mason Valley was named after a settler, James E. Mason who established a ranch in the valley in the later 19th century. The mouth of the valley is at an elevation of , at the point where the valley narrows into a canyon where the Vallecito Wash continues as Vallecito Creek and passes between the Sawtooth Range and the Vallecito Mountains. The head of Mason Valley is at an elevation of 2550 feet at at the junction of Oriflamme Canyon Oriflamme Canyon is a steep mountain canyon, in San Diego County, California that descends from its head in the Laguna Mountains, at , in an arc northwestward then northeastward to join Rodriguez Canyon at the northwest end of Mason Valley, where ... and Rodriguez Canyon where Vallecito Wash has its source. References Valleys of San Diego County, California East County (San Diego County) {{SanDiegoCountyCA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valleys Of San Diego County, California
A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over a very long period. Some valleys are formed through erosion by glacial ice. These glaciers may remain present in valleys in high mountains or polar areas. At lower latitudes and altitudes, these glacially formed valleys may have been created or enlarged during ice ages but now are ice-free and occupied by streams or rivers. In desert areas, valleys may be entirely dry or carry a watercourse only rarely. In areas of limestone bedrock, dry valleys may also result from drainage now taking place underground rather than at the surface. Rift valleys arise principally from earth movements, rather than erosion. Many different types of valleys are described by geographers, using terms that may be global in use or else applied only locally. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
