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La città, in gran parte suburbana, è situata nella bocca della Salinas Valley, a circa 8 km dall'Oceano Pacifico e gode di un clima mite. Salinas è conosciuta per essere un centro agricolo . Vi è nato lo scrittore Premio Nobel John Steinbeck .
GNIS feature IDs. 277589, 2411768. Website. www .cityofsalinas .org. Salinas ( / səˈliːnəs /; Spanish for "Salt Flats") is a city in the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Monterey County. With a population of 163,542 in the 2020 Census, Salinas is the most populous city in Monterey County. [10]
The county's largest city and county seat is Salinas. [5] Monterey County comprises the Salinas, California, Metropolitan Statistical Area. It borders on the southern part of Monterey Bay, after which it is named. (The northern half of the bay is in Santa Cruz County .)
Salinas / səˈliːnəs / is the county seat and largest municipality of Monterey County, California. It is an urban area located just outside the southern part of the Greater Bay Area and 10 miles (16 km) east-southeast of the mouth of the Salinas River. The population was 163,542 as of 2020. [1]
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The Salinas Valley runs approximately 90 miles (145 km) southeast from the Salinas River mouth near Castroville and Salinas towards King City and San Ardo. The valley lends its name to the geologic province in which it is located, the Salinian Block. Cities and populated places in the Salinas Valley include Bradley, Castroville, Chualar, Gonzales, ...
Before colonization, the valley was inhabited by indigenous Salinans who lived by hunting and gathering and spoke the Salinan language. The Salinan people are believed to have lived south of Junipero Serra Peak, perhaps ranging from Slates Hot Springson the coast to Soledad in the Salinas Valley and into northern San Luis Obispo County. The Spanish...
Supplying Salinas Valley farms is an underground water supply fed, in part, by the large watershed in surrounding mountains. Two reservoirs – Nacimiento and San Antonio—store and release the water for groundwater recharge, flood control and farming. Wells access the groundwater to irrigate about 275,000 acres (1,110 km2) of fruits and vegetables an...
The Salinas Valley's weather varies from north to south. Proximity to Monterey Bay and the cool coastal waters of the Pacific cools the northern part of the valley in summer, and keeps it relatively mild in winter. The southern portion of the valley has greater extremes of temperature, hotter in summer, and colder in winter. In summer, inland heati...
The California Rodeo Salinas, California International Airshow, the National Steinbeck Center, and the Steinbeck Festival are major attractions in Salinas.
La città, in gran parte suburbana, è situata nella bocca della Salinas Valley, a circa 8 km dall'Oceano Pacifico e gode di un clima mite. Salinas è conosciuta per essere un centro agricolo. Salinas è il capoluogo della contea di Monterey, negli Stati Uniti, nello Stato della California.
Salinas, city, seat (1872) of Monterey county, western California, U.S. It lies in the Salinas Valley just east of Monterey Bay. The site, at a crossroads on El Camino Real (the old Spanish trail between San Diego and San Francisco), was settled by Elias Howe in 1856 and became a cattle centre.
