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The Los Angeles Basin is a sedimentary basin located in Southern California, in a region known as the Peninsular Ranges. The basin is also connected to an anomalous group of east-west trending chains of mountains collectively known as the Transverse Ranges. The present basin is a coastal lowland area, whose floor is marked by elongate low ...
"Ballona Watershed Map". The Ballona Creek watershed totals about 130 square miles (340 square kilometers). According to a 1948 report in the Venice Evening Vanguard, "The total area drained by Ballona Creek consists of 86 square miles (220 km 2) square miles of coastal plain and 74 square miles (190 km 2) of foothills and plain range from sea level to 250 feet (76 m) and in the mountains from ...
The Arroyo Seco, meaning "dry stream" in Spanish, is a 24.9-mile-long (40.1 km) [4] seasonal river, canyon, watershed, and cultural area in Los Angeles County, California. The area was explored by Gaspar de Portolà who named the stream Arroyo Seco as this canyon had the least water of any he had seen.
Dominguez Channel (Spanish: Canal de Domínguez) [1] is a 15.7-mile-long (25.3 km) [2] stream in southern Los Angeles County, California, in the center of the Dominguez Watershed of 133 square miles (340 km 2). [3] The watershed area is 96 percent developed and largely residential. Subsurface storm drain tributaries and open flood control ...
The Los Angeles River (Spanish: Río de Los Ángeles), historically known as Paayme Paxaayt 'West River' by the Tongva and the Río Porciúncula 'Porciúncula River' by the Spanish, is a major river in Los Angeles County, California. Its headwaters are in the Simi Hills and Santa Susana Mountains, and it flows nearly 51 miles (82 km) from ...
Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve (pronunciation: "Bah-yo-nuh" [1] or "Buy-yo-nah" [2]) is a protected area that once served as the natural estuary for neighboring Ballona Creek. The 577-acre (2.34 km 2) [3] site is located in Los Angeles County, California, just south of Marina del Rey. Ballona—the second-largest open space within the city ...
Two people in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County have been diagnosed with the infection, Baylisascaris procyonis, ... from soil, water or on contaminated objects, according to the CDC. ...
Compton Creek is a major tributary of the Los Angeles River in and surrounding Compton in Los Angeles County, California. The stream drains a watershed of 42.1 square miles (109 km 2). [2] and is the last major tributary to enter the Los Angeles River before it reaches the Pacific Ocean. The stream begins just east of South Main Street between ...