Tujunga Wash

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Tujunga Wash
Tujunga Wash.JPG
Data
Water code US :  250659
location Los Angeles County , California , USA
River system Los Angeles River
Drain over Los Angeles River  → Pacific Ocean
origin Confluence of Big Tujunga Creek and Little Tujunga Wash
34 ° 15 ′ 37 ″  N , 118 ° 23 ′ 7 ″  W
muzzle in Studio City in the Los Angeles River Coordinates: 34 ° 8 ′ 43 "  N , 118 ° 23 ′ 21"  W 34 ° 8 ′ 43 "  N , 118 ° 23 ′ 21"  W

length 14 km (9 miles )
Reservoirs flowed through Hansen Dam

The Tujunga Wash is a river in Los Angeles County , California . The Tujunga Wash is created by the confluence of the Big Tujunga Creek , which flows in an east-west direction from the San Gabriel Mountains , and the Little Tujunga Wash , which flows in from the north from the San Gabriel Mountains . The confluence is just before the Tujunga Wash flows into the Hansen Dam basin in the north of the San Fernando Valley . From the dam, the Tujunga Wash flows mostly south through the San Fernando Valley before flowing into the Los Angeles River in Studio City . The most important tributary is the Pacoima Wash .

Tujunga Wash on Burbank Boulevard, looking north. Left The Great Wall of Los Angeles.

Between Vanowen Street and Oxnard Street, Tujunga Wash has been renatured and provided with a hiking trail, the Tujunga Wash Greenway. To the south is the Great Wall of Los Angeles , an approximately 800 m long mural that is applied to the concrete wall of the Tujunga Wash flood basin. Shortly before the confluence in Studio City, the Tujunga Wash borders the Moorpark Park .

The name Tujunga is derived from the name of a Tongva settlement . In this Indian language, Tuhuunga means "place of the old woman".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tujunga Wash in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed November 10, 2018
  2. ^ Where Art and Greenery Meet: Hiking Along The Tujunga Wash , KCET, September 16, 2011.
  3. ↑ Topanga, Cahuenga and Tujunga - sounds from a rediscovered local language UCLA newsroom of October 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ Gina Pollack, How To Speak LA: Your Guide To The City's Most Debated And Mispronounced Words , LA is July 22, 2019.