Sacramento River

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Sacramento River
Sacramento River basin

Sacramento River basin

Data
Water code US :  1654949
location California , USA
River system Sacramento River
discharge Lake Siskiyou
41 ° 16'24 "  N , 122 ° 24'5"  W.
muzzle Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Coordinates: 38 ° 3 '48 "  N , 121 ° 51' 10"  W 38 ° 3 '48 "  N , 121 ° 51' 10"  W.

length 607 km
Catchment area 69,930 km²
Left tributaries McCloud River , Pit River , Feather River , American River
Reservoirs flowed through Shasta dam
Big cities Redding, Sacramento
Navigable 300 km to Red Bluff
Estuary of the Sacramento River

Estuary of the Sacramento River

At 607 kilometers, the Sacramento is the longest river in the US state of California .

The river rises southwest of Mount Shasta in the southern part of the cascade chain and flows through the plains of the Sacramento Valley before it finally joins the San Joaquin River around 50 kilometers south of Sacramento in Suisun Bay and over the Carquinez Strait into the bays flows from San Pablo and San Francisco . The major tributaries of Sacramento are the Feather River , McCloud River, and Pit River , the latter of which is the longest at 333 kilometers in length.

The Sacramento is navigable upstream for nearly 300 kilometers to Red Bluff ; for ocean-going vessels, the limit is the city of Sacramento. Marine animals such as gray whales and sea ​​lions sometimes get lost far inland behind the navigable part of the river in search of food and later cannot find their way back to the Pacific .

At Shasta Lake , the Sacramento is dammed in the Shasta Dam .

Cities on the river

Web links

Commons : Sacramento River  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files
The river in Sacramento