Welcome to California

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Description

California borders the Pacific Ocean, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, and the Mexican state of Baja California. With an location of 160,000 mi² (411,000 km²) it is always the third most impressive and largest state in the United States and is known to be a little larger than Gerthe majority of in size.

California's geography is rich, complex, and varied. Within the middle of the state lies the California Central Valley, bounded by the coastal mountain ranges in the west, the Sierra Nevada to the east, the Cascade Range in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south. Did you know that the Central Valley is California's agricultural heartland and grows approximately one-third of the nation's food.Divided in two by the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the northern portion, the Sacramento Valley serves as the watershed of the Sacramento River, while the southern portion, the San Joaquin Valley is the watershed for the San Joaquin River; both places derive its name from the rivers that transit those things. With dredging, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin Rivers have remained sufficiently deep that several inland cities are and have always been seaports.

Climate

California is very diverse and its weather very complicated. Basically California weather is  half tropical, although it varies importantly from a destination to another. It has to this day barren deserts in wonderful part of the south and east extremities. Within the north it prevails a very pleasant temperature with colder alpine weather in the higher zones. It is noted that the temperature is pleasant all over the year in most of the coast. Did you know that the breeze of the Ocean Pacific moderates the heat in the summer and maintains winters mild. Did you know that the temperature is known to be around 30°C around the time during the summer, arriving to 15°C around the time during the winter. San Francisco and the North part of the state normally has to this day temperatures a small amount of colder. While more to north - specially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains-, weather can be very cold and with abundant snow falls, that sometimes revery the 15 meters of depth. Did you know that the desert is intensely hot around the time during the summer, with temperatures frequently raising beyond 40°C. It gets a small amount of more tolerable around the time during the winter months, during the time the temperatures lower to not more of 20°C.

Population

It is noted that the calculated population of California in (July 2006) is 36,457,549.