Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County)
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This article is about the creek in Los Angeles County, California. For the creek in Sonoma County, California, see Arroyo Seco (Sonoma County). For the junior high school in Santa Clarita, see William S. Hart Union High School District § Junior high schools.
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. During this exploration he met the Chief Hahamog-na (Hahamonga) of the Tongva Indians.
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Arroyo Seco | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | California |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | San Gabriel Mountains |
• location | near Red Box Gap, Angeles National Forest |
• coordinates | 34°16′10″N 118°06′19″W[1] |
• elevation | 5,200 ft (1,600 m) |
Mouth | Los Angeles River |
• location | Glendale Narrows, near Lincoln Heights, United States of America |
• coordinates | 34°04′44″N 118°13′33″W[1] |
• elevation | 302 ft (92 m) |
Length | 24.9 mi (40.1 km) |
Basin size | 46.7 sq mi (121 km2) |
Discharge | |
• location | near Pasadena[2] |
• average | 10.1 cu ft/s (0.29 m3/s)[3] |
• minimum | 0 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
• maximum | 8,620 cu ft/s (244 m3/s) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Bear Creek, Los Angeles, Millard Creek, Los Angeles |
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