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San Francisco Bay

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San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate.

San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary through which water draining about forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains and Central Valley, enters the Pacific Ocean. Technically, both rivers flow into Suisun Bay, which help 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 are often referred to as "the San Francisco Bay."

San Francisco Bay lies in the US state of California and is surrounded by a region known as the San Francisco Bay Area, that is near the big cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.

The Bay covers somewhere between 1,000 [1] and 4,000 [2] square kilometre, depending on which sub-bays (such as San Pablo Bay), estuaries, wetlands, and so on are included in the measurement.

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References[edit | edit source]

  • 1999 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.
  • 1988 Encyclopædia Britannica.

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