Cahuilla Creek is a
tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage ...
stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...
of
Wilson Creek which is in turn a tributary of
Temecula Creek
Temecula Creek, formerly known as the Temecula River, runs U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 16, 2011 through southern Riverside County, California, United States, pas ...
, and the
Santa Margarita River
The Santa Margarita River which with the addition of what is now Temecula Creek, was formerly known as the Temecula River, is a short intermittent river on the Pacific coast of southern California in the United States, approximately U.S. Geologic ...
in
Riverside County, California
Riverside County is a County (United States), county located in the southern California, southern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 2,418,185, making it the fourth-most ...
. Its mouth is at its confluence with Wilson Creek at an elevation of . Its source is at , at an elevation of 5,800 feet, on the west slope of
Thomas Mountain 0.6 miles west-southwest of
Tool Box Spring. It flows southwest through the
Anza Valley
Anza Valley, formerly known as the Hamilton Plains, is a basin in Riverside County, California.
Anza Valley trends southwest from Bautista Canyon, west of Thomas Mountain to Terwilliger Valley, 2.8 miles west-southwest of Table Mountain and 12 ...
and
Cahuilla Valley in the
Cahuilla Indian Reservation
The Cahuilla Band of Indians is a federally recognized tribe of Cahuilla people located in Southern California. They were formerly the Cahuilla Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Cahuilla Reservation.
Their tribe originally came from Coachella Valle ...
to Wilson Creek, 7 miles south-southwest of
Cahuilla Mountain and 20 miles south-southeast of
San Jacinto.
References
Rivers of Riverside County, California
Rivers of Southern California
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