San Jacinto River (California)

San Jacinto River in the catchment area of ​​the Santa Ana River

The San Jacinto River is a 68 km long river in Riverside County in the U.S. state of California. It is part of the river system of the Santa Ana River. Its headwaters located in the San Bernardino National Forest, the deeper part of his about 2000 km ² large catchment area, however, lies in an urban and a working country.

River course

The San Jacinto River is formed at the western foot of the San Jacinto Mountains at the confluence of its precursors South Fork San Jacinto River and North Fork San Jacinto River; the place of confluence is located east of Valle Vista near the California State Route 74, the South Fork San Jacinto River flows through before the confluence already the Lake Hemet, a 17 million cubic meters of water comprehensive reservoir, which supplies since 1895 the city of Hemet with water. After the meeting of North and South Fork of the river course of the now incurred actual San Jacinto Rivers leads northwest to Mystic Lake on. Excess water flows from here to the southwest from. In Perris the San Jacinto River crosses Interstate 215 and flows further downstream in the artificial Canyon Lake in the same city, which has a capacity of 14.7 million m³. The San Jacinto River enters again from the dam and flows for further 4.8 kilometers into Lake Elsinore. For this natural lake only occurs occasionally from water, this resulting river is called Temescal Wash. In the Corona Temescal Wash empties into the Santa Ana River.

As Endorheisches basin related to the Great Basin, the western part of the San Jacinto Basin is part of the North American Continental Divide.

List of tributaries

  • Cottonwood Canyon Creek
  • Salt Creek ( flows into the Canyon Lake )
  • Perris Valley Channel
  • Bautista Creek
  • Indian Creek

Tributaries of the North Fork San Jacinto River

  • Logan Creek
  • Stone Creek
  • Black Mountain Creek

Tributaries of the South Fork San Jacinto River

  • Dry Creek
  • Spillway Creek
  • Strawberry Creek
  • Herkey Creek
  • Fobes Creek
Riverside County, California Hemet, California San Jacinto, California Perris, California Lake Elsinore, California Valle Vista, California Interstate 215 (California) Canyon Lake, California Corona, California Endorheic basin
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