Arroyo Bayo is an
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Mount Hamilton Road east of
Mt. Hamilton in the
Diablo Range. It is part of the southern
Alameda Creek
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watershed in
Santa Clara County, California.
History
The historic Rancho Arroyo Bayo was located where Blumbago Canyon Creek joins Arroyo Bayo. The section of Mt. Hamilton Road east of Mt. Hamilton was known as Bayou Road on the historic Thomas and West map.
"Bayo" is Mexican Spanish for a dun, brown, or sorrel horse with a dark mane, tail and stripe on its back.
Watershed and course
Arroyo Bayo arises at then flows west-northwest along
Mount Hamilton Road then turns north where it is joined by
San Antonio Creek to form
Arroyo Valle. Arroyo Valle flows north through
Lake Del Valle
Lake Del Valle is a storage reservoir located southeast of Livermore, in Alameda County, California. It is within Del Valle Regional Park.
Lake description
It is on Arroyo Valle (Spanish for "creek of the valley") in the Diablo Range. The lake ...
to the
Livermore Valley where it turns west to
Arroyo de la Laguna
Arroyo de la Laguna is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 15, 2011 southward-flowing stream in Alameda County, California, United States which originates at the con ...
at Interstate 680, ultimately joining
Alameda Creek
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and terminating in
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is dominated by the big cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland.
San Francisco Bay drains water from a ...
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Habitat and Ecology
Informal surveys of Arroyo Bayo have found no
steelhead trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'').
See also
*
Mount Hamilton (California)
*
List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area
References
External links
{{San Francisco Bay watershed
Rivers of Santa Clara County, California
Rivers of Northern California
Tributaries of Alameda Creek
Diablo Range