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The Potrero Hills are a low
mountain range
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in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta
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area of southern Solano County, California
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.
Geography
The range is located in the southwesternSacramento Valley
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, northeast of Suisun Bay
Suisun Bay ( ; Wintun for "where the west wind blows") is a shallow tidal estuary (a northeastern extension of the San Francisco Bay) in Northern California. It lies at the confluence of the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River, forming the ent ...
, and southeast of the city of Fairfield. It is part of the Northern Inner Coast Ranges The Inner Coast Ranges are a long mountain range subsystem of the California Coast Ranges, running generally north–south in western California, from Santa Barbara County north to the Klamath Mountains system.
Geography
The term ''inner'' is a ref ...
group in the California Coast Ranges
The Coast Ranges of California span from Del Norte or Humboldt County, California, south to Santa Barbara County. The other three coastal California mountain ranges are the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges and the Klamath Mountains.
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System.
The Rush Ranch Open Space Preserve unit of the San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is located on Suisun Bay at the western side of the Potrero Hills.
See also
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Mountain ranges of Solano County, California California Coast Ranges Hills of California Geography of the Sacramento Valley Fairfield, California Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta Mountain ranges of the San Francisco Bay Area {{SolanoCountyCA-geo-stub