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Americano Creek

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Americano Creek is a long westward-flowing stream in the California counties of Sonoma and Marin. [1]

50 relations: Ammonia, Bacteria, Bloomfield, California, Bodega Bay, Bodega Bay, California, Bridge, California, California State Route 1, Cattle, Coast Miwok, Concrete slab, Copper, Cotati, California, Culvert, Endangered species, Estero Americano State Marine Recreational Management Area, Estuary, Ferdinand von Wrangel, Fort Ross, California, Grazing, Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, John B. R. Cooper, Kayak, Landfill, Lilium pardalinum subsp. pitkinense, Limnanthes vinculans, List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area, Manuel Micheltorena, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Marin County, California, Overgrazing, Pacific Ocean, PH, Quarry, Rancho Cañada de Jonive, Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi, Rancho Estero Americano, Rare species, River source, Sediment, Sonoma County, California, Spanish language, Stream, Trifolium amoenum, United States, Valley Ford, California, Village, Water pollution, Watercourse, Zinc.

Ammonia

Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) is a type of biological cell.

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Bloomfield, California

Bloomfield is a census-designated place in Sonoma County, California, U.S. It is located in a rural area about southwest of Santa Rosa, California at the junction of Bloomfield Road and Valley Ford Road.

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Bodega Bay

Bodega Bay is a shallow, rocky inlet of the Pacific Ocean on the coast of northern California in the United States.

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Bodega Bay, California

Bodega Bay is a town and census-designated place (CDP) in Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles without closing the way underneath such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California State Route 1

State Route 1 (SR 1) is a major north–south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the U.S. state of California.

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Cattle

Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

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Coast Miwok

The Coast Miwok are an indigenous people that was the second largest group of Miwok people.

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Concrete slab

A concrete slab is a common structural element of modern buildings.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Cotati, California

Cotati is an incorporated city in Sonoma County, California, U.S., located about north of San Francisco in the 101 corridor between Rohnert Park and Petaluma.

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Culvert

A culvert is a structure that allows water to flow under a road, railroad, trail, or similar obstruction from one side to the other side.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.

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Estero Americano State Marine Recreational Management Area

Estero Americano State Marine Recreational Management Area (SMRMA) is a marine protected area that splits Sonoma and Marin counties on California’s north central coast.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Ferdinand von Wrangel

Baron Ferdinand Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Wrangel (Фердина́нд Петро́вич Вра́нгель, Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel; –) was a Russian explorer and seaman of Baltic German ancestry, Honorable Member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, a founder of the Russian Geographic Society.

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Fort Ross, California

Fort Ross (Форт-Росс), originally Fortress Ross (Крѣпость Россъ, tr. Krepostʹ Ross), is a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North America in what is now Sonoma County, California, in the United States.

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Grazing

Grazing is a method of feeding in which a herbivore feeds on plants such as grasses, or other multicellular organisms such as algae.

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Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary

The Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (formerly Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary) protects the wildlife, habitats, and cultural resources of one of the most diverse and bountiful marine environments in the world, an area of 3,295 square miles off the northern and central California coast.

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John B. R. Cooper

John Bautista Rogers Cooper (born John Rogers Cooper, September 11, 1791, Alderney, British Channel Islands – June 2, 1872, San Francisco, California).

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Kayak

A kayak is a small, narrow watercraft which is propelled by means of a double-bladed paddle.

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Landfill

A landfill site (also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump or dumping ground and historically as a midden) is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial.

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Lilium pardalinum subsp. pitkinense

Lilium pardalinum subsp.

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Limnanthes vinculans

Limnanthes vinculans, the Sebastopol meadowfoam, is an endangered species of meadowfoam found only in the Laguna de Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California, United States and an area slightly to the south in the Americano Creek and Washoe Creek watersheds.

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List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area

These watercourses (rivers, creeks, sloughs, etc.) in the San Francisco Bay Area are grouped according to the bodies of water they flow into.

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Manuel Micheltorena

José Manuel Micheltorena (1802 – 7 September 1853) was a brigadier general of the Mexican Army, adjutant-general of the same, governor, commandant-general and inspector of the department of Alta California, then within Mexico.

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Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (4 July 1807 – 18 January 1890) was a Californio military commander, politician, and rancher.

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Marin County, California

Marin County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Overgrazing

Overgrazing occurs when plants are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without sufficient recovery periods.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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PH

In chemistry, pH is a logarithmic scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution.

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Quarry

A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground.

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Rancho Cañada de Jonive

Rancho Cañada de Jonive was a Mexican land grant in present day Sonoma County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to James Black.

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Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi

Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi (also called "Cañada de Pogolome" and "Cañada de Pogolomi") was a Mexican land grant in present-day Sonoma County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to María Antonia Cazares, widow of James Dawson.

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Rancho Estero Americano

Rancho Estero Americano was a Mexican land grant in present-day Sonoma County, California given in 1839 by Governor Pro-tem Manuel Jimeno to Edward Manuel McIntosh.

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Rare species

A rare species is a group of organisms that are very uncommon, scarce, or infrequently encountered.

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River source

The source or headwaters of a river or stream is the furthest place in that river or stream from its estuary or confluence with another river, as measured along the course of the river.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Sonoma County, California

Sonoma County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Stream

A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.

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Trifolium amoenum

Trifolium amoenum, known by the common names showy Indian clover and two-fork clover, is endemic to California, and is an endangered annual herb that subsists in grassland areas of the San Francisco Bay Area and the northern California Coast Ranges.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Valley Ford, California

Valley Ford is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in western Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.

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Water pollution

Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities.

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Watercourse

A watercourse is the channel that a flowing body of water follows.

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Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americano_Creek

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