Guadalupe River (California)

The Guadalupe River in downtown San Jose

It runs from the Santa Cruz Mountains to the north by San José and flows into the San Francisco Bay at Alviso. The river flows through the Santa Clara County, mainly parallel to the Silver Creek Fault.

The river is embedded largely in parks and gardens. The five kilometers, which the river flows through the city of San José, are part of the Guadalupe River Park and Gardens, one of the largest urban parks in the United States.

In addition, the River salmon, which San Jose is the only major U.S. city except Anchorage, Alaska, through the city center, the salmon to their spawning grounds swim up the river home. Since the salmon is threatened with extinction, fishing one of these is prohibited. The fact that the river runs through a former mercury mining area is to discourage the consumption of fish anyway.

Name

The river's name is derived from the original name of the city of San José, which was founded in 1777 as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. Other rivers of the same name is found in Spanish-speaking areas.

Flooding

The flow usually occurs in the winter in downtown San José, south of downtown and in Alviso on the shore. In the years 1995 and 1997, the then U.S. President Bill Clinton declared the area because of the flooding disaster area. To a first in the NHL history came here in March 1995, when the first and only game had to be canceled due to rain. Due to the flooding, it was the visitors the game between the San Jose Sharks and the Detroit Red Wings impossible to get into the San Jose Arena to watch the game.

In December 2004, a project for coping with a flood of the century was completed. The greatest flooding dated from the year 1955.

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