San Francisco Bay
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San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. Technically, both rivers flow into Suisun Bay, which help flows through the Carquinez Strait to meet with the Napa River at the entrance to San Pablo Bay, which connects at its south end to San Francisco Bay, although the entire group of interconnected bays are often referred to as "the San Francisco Bay."
San Francisco Bay lies in the US state of California and is surrounded by a region known as the San Francisco Bay Area, that is dominated by the big cities San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.
The Bay covers somewhere between 400[1] and 1,600[2] square miles (1,040 to 4,160 square kilometres), depending on which sub-bays (such as San Pablo Bay), estuaries, wetlands, and so on are included in the measurement.
[edit] Photography
 The city of Berkeley, the Bay and Marin County in the background as seen from the Claremont Canyon reserve |
 Mount Tamalpais view across San Pablo Bay at Point Pinole Regional Shoreline in Richmond |
[edit] References
- 1999 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.
- 1988 Encyclopedia Britannica.
[edit] External links
- San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary, David Sanger and John Hart, University of California Press
- Barging In - A Short History of Liveaboards on the Bay
- Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model: Working scale model of the Bay
- BoatingSF.com: Photos of SF Bay and its boats, plus online cruising guide
- SF Estuary Institute: San Francisco Bay Historical View Maps
