| Ciervo Hills | |
|---|---|
  Location of Ciervo Hills in California [1] | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 1,027 m (3,369 ft) |
| Geography | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Region | California Coast Ranges, San Joaquin Valley |
| District | Fresno County |
| Range coordinates | 36°28′23.829″N120°34′47.602″W / 36.47328583°N 120.57988944°W Coordinates: 36°28′23.829″N120°34′47.602″W / 36.47328583°N 120.57988944°W |
| Topo map | USGS Ciervo Mountain |
The Ciervo Hills are a low mountain range in west Fresno County, in the western San Joaquin Valley of central California. [1]
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills ranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arisen from the same cause, usually an orogeny. Mountain ranges are formed by a variety of geological processes, but most of the significant ones on Earth are the result of plate tectonics. Mountain ranges are also found on many planetary mass objects in the Solar System and are likely a feature of most terrestrial planets.
Fresno County, officially the County of Fresno, is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of California. As of January 1, 2018, the population was 1,007,229. The county seat is Fresno, the fifth-largest city in California.
The San Joaquin Valley is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the San Joaquin River. It comprises seven counties of Northern and one of Southern California, including, in the north, all of San Joaquin and Kings counties, most of Stanislaus, Merced, and Fresno counties, and parts of Madera and Tulare counties, along with a majority of Kern County, in Southern California. Although a majority of the valley is rural, it does contain cities such as Fresno, Bakersfield, Stockton, Modesto, Turlock, Porterville, Visalia, Merced, and Hanford.
Interstate 5 runs parallel to the hills on the east.
Interstate 5 (I-5) is a major north–south route of the Interstate Highway System in the U.S. state of California. It begins at the Mexico–United States border at the San Ysidro crossing, goes north across the length of California and crosses into Oregon south of the Medford-Ashland metropolitan area. It is the more important and most used of the two major north-south routes on the Pacific Coast, the other being U.S. Route 101, which is primarily coastal.
