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16 ore fa · The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay. The Association of Bay Area Governments defines the Bay Area as including the nine counties that border the estuaries of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay , and Suisun Bay : Alameda , Contra Costa ...
3 giorni fa · Satellite map of the San Francisco Bay Area from the U.S. Geological Survey. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city's 17.7-square-mile (46 km 2) area includes 10.5 square miles (27 km 2) of land and 7.2 square miles (19 km 2) (40.83%) water, most of it part of San Francisco Bay.
1 giorno fa · 18th century. Las Californias is established in 1768 by New Spain, encompassing the Bay Area. Gaspar de Portolà arrives in the Bay Area in 1769. Mission San Francisco de Asís and El Presidio Real de San Francisco are founded in 1776 in Yerba Buena. Baptisms of the Yelamu by Spanish missionaries begin in 1777.
5 giorni fa · San Francisco, city and port, coextensive with San Francisco county, northern California, U.S., located on a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. It is a cultural and financial centre of the western United States and one of the country’s most cosmopolitan cities.
17 mag 2024 · San Francisco Bay, large, nearly landlocked bay indenting western California, U.S. It is a drowned river valley paralleling the coastline and is connected with the Pacific Ocean by a strait called the Golden Gate, which is spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco Bay is 60 miles (97 km)
13 mag 2024 · The city’s population surged after many people fled San Francisco following the devastating 1906 earthquake. Bridging the bay in the 1930s facilitated commuting and contributed to the city’s growth. During the 1960s and ’70s the hippie culture flourished in the city, and it continues to influence daily life in Berkeley.
2 mag 2024 · Bay Area style: houses of the San Francisco Bay region. Alan Weintraub. New York : Rizzoli. 2004. Building with nature: roots of the San Francisco Bay Region tradition, [by] Leslie Mandelson Freudenheim & Elisabeth Sussman. Santa Barbara, Calif., P. Smith, 1974.
