San Leandro
| San Leandro | |||
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 San Leandro Marina |
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| Location in California | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | March 21, 1872 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | California | ||
| County : | Alameda County | ||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 43 ′ N , 122 ° 9 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 ) | ||
| Residents : | 81,466 (as of 2007) | ||
| Population density : | 2,396.1 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 40.3 km 2 (approx. 16 mi 2 ) of which 34.0 km 2 (approx. 13 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 15 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 94577-94579 | ||
| Area code : | +1 510 | ||
| FIPS : | 06-68084 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1659582 | ||
| Website : | www.ci.san-leandro.ca.us | ||
| Mayor : | Tony Santos | ||
San Leandro is a city in Alameda County in the US state of California with 99,198 inhabitants (as of 2004). The geographical coordinates are: 37.71 ° North, 122.15 ° West. The urban area has a size of 40.3 km² and is located on the east bank of the Bay of San Francisco between Oakland in the northwest and Hayward in the southeast. It belongs to the metropolitan area of San Francisco Bay Area .
history
The first inhabitants of the area were the Muwekma Ohlone , an Indian people who lived between 3500 and 2500 BC. BC settled here. The first Europeans in the area were Spanish soldiers and missionaries who landed here in 1772.
In 1856, San Leandro became the administrative seat of Alameda County. In 1868, however, the administration building was destroyed by an earthquake. The administrative seat was therefore moved to neighboring Brooklyn, now a borough of Oakland, in 1872, so that today Oakland is the seat of the county.
From 1934 the office technology manufacturer Friden, Inc. had its headquarters in San Leandro. In 1963, he presented the first fully electronic calculating machine , which only had transistors instead of electron tubes .
traffic
- San Leandro is connected to public transport in the San Francisco area through three lines of the S-Bahn or subway system BART ( Bay Area Rapid Transit ).
- Major roads are Interstates 238 , 580, and 880, and California State Routes 61 and 185 .
Town twinning
San Leandro is twinned with Ribeirão Preto in the Brazilian state of São Paulo (since 1962); Ponta Delgada in the Portuguese Azores (since 1970) and with Naga City on the Philippine island of Luzon (since 1989). Another friendly relationship is with Yangchun in the Chinese province of Guangdong .
sons and daughters of the town
- Lloyd Bridges (1913–1998), actor
- Joe Alves (born 1936), film architect
- Richard Aoki (1938–2009), civil rights activist
- Todd Marinovich (* 1969), former American football and Canadian football player
- Katherine Sarafian (* 1969), film producer
- David Silveria (born 1972), drummer
- Chuck Hayes (born 1983), basketball player
- Marcus Slaughter (born 1985), basketball player
- Andre Jamal Kinney (born 1989), actor
