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Tulare County is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census,the population was 473,117. The county seat is Visalia. The county is named for Tulare Lake,once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes. Drained for agricultural development,the site is now in Kings County,which was created in 1893 from the western portion of the formerly larger Tulare County.
The Central Valley is a broad,elongated,flat valley that dominates the interior of California. It is 40–60 mi (60–100 km) wide and runs approximately 450 mi (720 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast,inland from and parallel to the Pacific coast of the state. It covers approximately 18,000 sq mi (47,000 km2),about 11% of California's land area. The valley is bounded by the Coast Ranges to the west and the Sierra Nevada to the east.
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Tulare Lake or Tache Lake is a freshwater lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley,California,United States. Historically,Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. For thousands of years,from the Paleolithic onward,Tulare Lake was a uniquely rich area,which supported perhaps the largest population of Native Americans north of present-day Mexico.
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- ↑ Gutierrez, Kassandra (June 13, 2024). "77th annual Kings Fair returns with new sea lion performance". KFSN-TV . Retrieved November 8, 2024.
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- 1 2 3 Gligich, Daniel (November 28, 2023). "GOPer Macedo launches bid to replace Mathis in Assembly". San Joaquin Valley Sun.
- ↑ Gligich, Daniel (8 December 2023). "Fong, Mathis bow out of sweepstakes to succeed McCarthy". The San Joaquin Valley Sun.