San Francisco Bay

USA / California / Alameda /
San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. Technically, both rivers flow into Suisun Bay, which flows through the Carquinez Strait to meet with the Napa River at the entrance to San Pablo Bay, which connects at its south end to San Francisco Bay, although the entire group of interconnected bays is often referred to as "San Francisco Bay."

The Bay covers somewhere between 400 and 1,600 square miles depending on which sub-bays (such as San Pablo Bay), estuaries, wetlands, and so on are included in the measurement. The main part of the Bay measures 3 to 12 miles wide east-to-west and somewhere between 48 miles and 60 miles north-to-south.

~Wikipedia
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay
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Coordinates:   37°42'55"N   122°16'51"W

Comments

  • Carquinez (say car-kee-nez) there u go. And don't call it 'Frisco'--we know you are a tourist if you say that. Say 'The Bay' and we know you mean San Francisco:)