Topografische Karte Salinas River

The climate in San Diego, like most of Southern California, often varies significantly over short geographical distances, resulting in microclimates. In San Diego, this is mostly because of the city's topography (the Bay, and the numerous hills, mountains, and canyons). Frequently, particularly during the "May…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 57 m

The San Francisco Bay Area is characterized by a diverse and dynamic topography shaped by geological processes over millions of years. This region features a combination of coastal plains, steep hills, and rugged mountains, all influenced by the tectonic activity associated with the nearby San Andreas Fault…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 113 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 98 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 521 m

During and immediately after heavy snow storms it may not be possible to drive to the top of Mount Pinos Road due to the lack of snow plow availability. In such cases it is common for the Kern County Roads Department to close a snow gate lower on the mountain. It is still possible to ski from the snow gate and…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 2’468 m

The Santa Cruz Mountains are a region of great biological diversity, encompassing cool, moist coastal ecosystems as well as warm, dry chaparral. Much of the area in the Santa Cruz mountains is considered temperate rainforest. In valleys and moist ocean-facing slopes some of the southernmost coast redwoods…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 230 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 3’888 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 3’888 m

In the 1860s, San Franciscans began to feel the need for a spacious public park similar to Central Park, which was then taking shape in New York City. Golden Gate Park was carved out of unpromising sand and shore dunes that were known as the Outside Lands, in an unincorporated area west of San Francisco's…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 71 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 2’357 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 624 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’828 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’143 m

Mount Shasta (/ˈʃæstə/ SHASS-tə; Shasta: Waka-nunee-Tuki-wuki; Karuk: Úytaahkoo) is a potentially active volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. At an elevation of 14,179 feet (4,321.8 meters), it is the second-highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth-highest in…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 3’717 m

The topography of the sea floor surrounding Crescent City has the effect of focusing tsunamis. According to researchers at Humboldt State University and the University of Southern California, the city experienced tsunami conditions 31 times between the years 1933 and 2008. Although many of these incidents were…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 31 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: -1 m

Cajon Pass (/kəˈhoʊn/; Spanish: Puerto del Cajón or Paso del Cajón) is a mountain pass between the San Bernardino Mountains to the east and the San Gabriel Mountains to the west in Southern California. Created by the movements of the San Andreas Fault, it has an elevation of 3,777 ft (1,151 m). Located in…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’169 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 667 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’234 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 57 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’709 m

Mount Whitney (Paiute: Tumanguya; Too-man-i-goo-yah) is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States and the Sierra Nevada, with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). It is in East–Central California, on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, 84.6 miles (136.2 km) west-northwest…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 3’903 m

Meyers (also Yanks, Yank's Station, and Tahoe Paradise) is a small an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in El Dorado County, California, United States, along U.S. Route 50 in the northern Sierra Nevada. It is 6 miles (10 km) south of South Lake Tahoe in the Lake Tahoe area and lies at…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’995 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 232 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 57 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 133 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 212 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 602 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 324 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 15 m

The highest peaks of the crest of the coast range are located at an average distance from the coast of three and a half miles [5.6 km]. In this distance they rise to elevations of from three thousand six hundred to five thousand feet [1,100 to 1,500 m] above the sea-level. From San Carpoforo Creek to…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 193 m

The borders of the San Francisco Bay Area are not officially delineated, and the unique development patterns influenced by the region's topography, as well as unusual commute patterns caused by the presence of three central cities and employment centers located in various suburban locales, has led to…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 113 m

The area is surrounded on the southwest by the Santa Rosa Mountains, by the San Jacinto Mountains to the west, the Little San Bernardino Mountains to the east and San Gorgonio Mountain to the north. These mountains peak at around 11,000 feet (3,400 m) and tend to average between 5,000 and 7,000 feet (1,500 and…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 72 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 2’777 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 496 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 43 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 189 m

Bodie (/ˈboʊdiː/ BOH-dee) is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States. It is about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe, and 12 mi (19 km) east-southeast of Bridgeport, at an elevation of 8,379 feet (2554 m). Bodie became a boom…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 2’627 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 7 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’043 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: -1 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 201 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 153 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 780 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 2’427 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 53 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 189 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 271 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 23 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 464 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 531 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 0 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 588 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 200 m

El Dorado Hills (EDH), as defined by the 2010 census-designated place (CDP), is at the western border of El Dorado County, between the City of Folsom and the unincorporated community of Cameron Park. The northern limits of the CDP are Folsom Lake and the South Fork of the American River, where river rafters…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 254 m

Crowley Lake is a census-designated place in Mono County, California. Crowley Lake sits at an elevation of 6,939 feet (2,115 m). The 2020 United States census reported Crowley Lake's population was 980.

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 2’251 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 943 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 221 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’271 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 356 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 65 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 480 m

Likely (formerly, South Fork) is a census-designated place in Modoc County, California. It is located near the South Fork of the Pit River, 18 miles (29 km) south of the county seat of Alturas, at an elevation of 4,449 feet (1,356 m). Its population is 53 as of the 2020 census, down from 63 at the time of the…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’363 m

Round Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States. Round Valley is located 7.5 miles (12 km) northeast of Mount Tom, at an elevation of 4692 feet (1430 m). The population was 435 at the 2010 census, up from 278 at the 2000 census.

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’491 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’698 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’438 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 2’673 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 343 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 146 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 45 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 82 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 932 m

Mount Shasta (Shasta: Waka-nunee-Tuki-wuki; Karuk: Úytaahkoo) is a potentially active volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. At an elevation of 14,179 feet (4,321.8 meters), it is the second-highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth-highest in the state. Mount Shasta…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 3’717 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 322 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 35 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 246 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’977 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’460 m

Diamond Springs (formerly, Diamond Spring and Diamond) is a census-designated place (CDP) in El Dorado County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 11,037 at the 2010 census, up from 4,888 at the 2000 census. The…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 542 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 950 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’334 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’127 m

Hilmar is an unincorporated community in Merced County, California, United States. It is located 4.25 miles (6.8 km) west-southwest of Delhi, spanning 3.9 sq mi (10 km2) and at an elevation of 92 ft (28 m) above sea level. For census purposes, Hilmar is aggregated with a nearby community into the Hilmar-Irwin…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 30 m

Markleeville hosts an annual bicycle ride called the Death Ride - Tour of the California Alps. The route goes over five passes for a total distance of 129 miles and over 15,000 feet of elevation gain. In 2010 3,500 riders participated and 2,417 completed the full course of 5 mountain passes.

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’788 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 45 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’043 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 8 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 12 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 194 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 13 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 3’403 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 1’261 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 803 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 91 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 339 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 295 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 34 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 428 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 2 m