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Cañada Gobernadora is a tributary to San Juan Creek, about 8.5 miles (13.7 km) long, in southern Orange County in the U.S. state of California. The creek begins in the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains, at an elevation of 1,040 feet (320 m), and flows south through residential, agricultural and finally undeveloped land, to its confluence with San Juan Creek a few miles upstream of the city of San Juan Capistrano. The upper half of the stream is largely channelized and flows through golf courses, while the lower half is a wash-like channel that can be up to 700 feet (210 m) wide. The stream receives some urban runoff from the residential communities higher in its watershed. The watershed includes several geologic formations, including the Tertiary Sespe Formation and Santiago Formation, and Holocene sedimentary and alluvial deposits embedded in its narrow floodplain. Cañada Gobernadora forms an unofficial dividing line for the lower portion of the San Juan watershed; most urban development is confined to west of the creek's valley, while agricultural and undeveloped lands lie to the east of the creek.
Montezuma Creek is a tributary of the San Juan River. The stream is approximately 73 miles (117 km) long and is a seasonal river, becoming dry for several months of the year.
The Carrizo Creek and Carrizo Wash in California are a stream and an arroyo that the stream flows into, in San Diego County, California and Imperial County, California.
Laguña Creek also formerly also known as Tyende Creek, is a stream in the Navajo and Apache Counties of Arizona. Laguña Creek has its source at 36°41′15″N110°30′36″W, at the confluence of Long Canyon and Dowozhiebito Canyon at an elevation of 6325 feet / 1928 meters at the head of Tsegi Canyon. Its mouth is in the Chinle Valley at its confluence with Chinle Wash which together forms Chinle Creek, at an elevation of 4774 feet / 1455 meters. Chinle Creek is a tributary of San Juan River which is in turn a tributary of the Colorado River.
Chinle Creek is a tributary stream of the San Juan River in Apache County, Arizona and San Juan County, Utah. Its source is at 36°53′40″N109°44′37″W, the confluence of Laguña Creek and the Chinle Wash arroyo. Its name is derived from the Navajo word ch'inili meaning 'where the waters came out. Its sources is in Canyon de Chelly National Monument where Canyon de Chelly and Canyon del Muerto have their confluence at an elevation of 5,616 feet at 36°08′35″N109°29′17″W. It then trends northwest to its confluence with Laguña Creek where it forms Chinle Creek, 7 miles northeast of Dennehotso, Arizona at an elevation of 4,774 feet / 1,455 meters.
San Jose Creek is an intermittent, tributary stream of the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, California. The mouth of San Jose Creek is at an elevation of 194 feet / 59 meters at its confluence with the San Gabriel River, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southwest of Bassett, California. Its source is at 960 feet near the Los Angeles County Fairplex, at 34°04′50″N117°45′38″W, where it has its confluence with Thompson Wash, actually a continuation of the creek into the San Gabriel Mountains. From Thompson Wash, San Jose Creek flows nearly 20 miles (32 km) westwards from Pomona into the San Gabriel River through the Pomona Valley and San Gabriel Valley.
Salt Creek or Rio Salitroso is a tributary stream or wash of the Amargosa River, in San Bernardino County, California. It was named Rio Salitroso, on January 16, 1830, by Antonio Armijo, whose expedition subsequently followed it up towards the Mojave River, as they established the first route of the Old Spanish Trail.
Coyote Wash is a tributary stream of Whiskey Creek in the watershed of the San Juan River and Colorado River. The confluence with Whiskey Creek lies within the Canyon de Chelly National Monument. It is entirely in Apache County, Arizona. Its mouth is located at an elevation of 7,080 feet (2,160 m) at its confluence with Whiskey Creek. Its source is at an elevation of 7,096 feet (2,163 m) at the confluence of Crystal Creek and Cattail Wash 36°04′52″N109°08′56″W.
Coyote Wash is a tributary stream of the Chaco River, on the Navajo Nation in San Juan County and McKinley County, New Mexico. Its mouth is located at the turn of the Great Bend of the Chaco River at an elevation of 5,476 feet / 1,669 meters in San Juan County. Its source is at 35°46′57″N108°37′10″W, at the confluence of the streams of Window Rock Canyon and Coyote Canyon at an elevation of 6,080 feet.
Palm Canyon Wash is an arroyo and tributary ephemeral stream or wash of the Whitewater River, in Riverside County, California.
Bull Canyon is a canyon at the top of Palm Canyon Wash, which is a tributary to the Whitewater River, in Riverside County, California. Bull Canyon and the creek of Palm Canyon Wash heads at 33°36′47″N116°33′23″W, at an elevation of 6,165 feet in the southern western slope of a ridge in the San Jacinto Mountains. The waters of the creek of Palm Canyon Wash are augmented by Bull Canyon Spring at 33°35′22″N116°33′24″W, at an elevation of 5,331 feet / 1,625 meters. The mouth of Bull Canyon is at an elevation of 4,508 feet / 1,374 meters at the head of Palm Canyon. The mouth of an unnamed creek flows north down from Vandeventer Flat into the head of Palm Canyon at its confluence with Palm Canyon Wash at 33°34′08″N116°31′43″W at an elevation of 4,460 feet.
Camatta Creek, originally Arroyo Camate, in 19th century Alta California, is a tributary stream of San Juan Creek, itself a tributary of the Estrella River, in San Luis Obispo County.
Lone Tree Creek is a tributary stream of the San Joaquin River now diverted, in San Joaquin County, California. Its source is in the Diablo Range at its confluence with its North Fork and Middle Fork tributary streams at 37°34′15″N121°26′24″W at an elevation of 790 feet. Its mouth was originally at its confluence with the San Joaquin River, but later was diverted into the Delta Mendota Canal at 37°38′24″N121°21′12″W, but now interrupted by development, reaches just past the mouth of its canyon at an elevation of 290 feet.
See Canyon is a valley in San Luis Obispo County, California. It has its source at 35°15′09″N120°46′16″W at an elevation of 960 feet / 291 meters in the Irish Hills. Its mouth lies at an elevation of 33 feet / 10 meters, at its confluence with San Luis Obispo Creek.
Kellogg Creek is a tributary of Indian Slough, in Contra Costa County, California. Indian Slough itself is a tributary of the Old River, an old channel of the San Joaquin River. Kellogg Creek was formerly named Arroyo Santa Ángela de Fulgino by Pedro Font, on April 4, 1776, as the expedition of Juan Bautista de Anza passed through the area. In the 19th century it was known to the Californios as Arroyo del Sur.
Indian Slough is a slough, tributary to the Old River, an old channel of the San Joaquin River in California. Its mouth is at an elevation of 7 feet / 2 meters, at its confluence with the Old River. Its source is at its confluence with Kellogg Creek at an elevation of 7 feet / 2 meters at the location 37°54′58″N121°36′18″W.
Ingram Canyon is a valley or canyon where the upper reach of Ingram Creek runs in Stanislaus County, California.
Prefumo Creek is a tributary stream of San Luis Obispo Creek. Its mouth is at its confluence with San Luis Obispo Creek at an elevation of 102 feet. Its source is found at 35°15′41″N120°45′28″W in the Irish Hills. From its source it flows down into Laguna Lake at 35°15′51″N120°41′32″W, and provides the overflow channel from the lake at 35°15′35″N120°41′01″W that drains to the San Luis Obispo Creek.
Quién Sabe Creek is a tributary stream of Los Muertos Creek, in San Benito County, California. Los Muertos Creek is in turn tributary to Tres Pinos Creek and Tres Pinos to the San Benito River, itself tributary to the Pajaro River. Quien Sabe Creek's mouth is at an elevation of 1,470 feet / 448 meters at its confluence with Los Muertos Creek. Its source is at 36°54′40″N121°12′55″W an elevation of 2,800 feet / 853 meters in the Diablo Range.
Bitterwater Valley is a valley in San Benito County, California. Its mouth is located at an elevation of 971 feet / 296 meters near the confluence of Bitterwater Creek with Lewis Creek a tributary to San Lorenzo Creek, a tributary of the Salinas River. Its head is at 1630 feet / 538 meters, at 36°23′07″N120°58′31″W.
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Coordinates: 35°39′31″N120°22′13″W / 35.65861°N 120.37028°W
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