28 Facts About Sacramento River

Sacramento River is the principal river of Northern California in the United States and is the largest river in California.

The Sacramento River is used heavily for irrigation and serves much of Central and Southern California through the canals of giant state and federal water projects.

The Upper Sacramento River begins near Mount Shasta, at the confluence of North, Middle and South Forks in the Trinity Mountains of Siskiyou County.

The Upper Sacramento River canyon provides the route for I-5 and the railroad between Lakehead and Mount Shasta.

Beyond Red Bluff the river reaches the low floodplain of the Sacramento Valley, receiving Mill Creek from the east and Thomes Creek from the west near Los Molinos, then Deer Creek from the east near Vina.

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Near downtown Sacramento it receives the American River from the east, then passes under the historic Tower Bridge and Interstate 80 Business.

Shortly downstream, the Port of Sacramento is located on the west side of the Sacramento, connected to the river by a lock.

Since the 1960s, the McCloud Sacramento River flow has been reduced and the Pit Sacramento River flow increased due to diversion of water for hydropower generation; however the total volume of water entering Shasta Lake remains the same.

Sacramento River's watershed is the largest entirely in California, covering much of the northern part of the state.

The Pit Sacramento River, has the distinction of being one of three rivers that cut through the main crest of the Cascades; its headwaters rise on the western extreme of the Basin and Range Province, east of major Cascade volcanoes such as Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak.

Major drainage basins bordering that of the Sacramento are that of the Klamath in the north, the San Joaquin and Mokelumne to the south and the Eel River in the west.

Parts of the Sacramento River watershed come very close to, but do not extend past, the border of California and Nevada.

The Sacramento River watershed covers all or most of Shasta, Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Plumas, Yuba, Sutter, Lake and Yolo Counties.

The Sacramento River watershed includes large areas of coniferous forests in the Mendocino and Trinity National Forests in the Coast Ranges, Shasta and Lassen National Forests in the southern Cascades and the Plumas, Tahoe and Eldorado National Forests on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada.

The Sacramento River Valley was first settled by humans about 12, 000 years ago, but permanent villages were not established until about 8, 000 years ago.

Sacramento River'storians have organized the numerous separate original native groups into several "tribes".

Sacramento River was friendly with some of the tribes, and paid their leaders handsomely for supplying workers, but others he seized by force to labor in the fields.

Steamboats traveled up and down the Sacramento River carrying miners from San Francisco to the gold fields.

The city of Sacramento River, founded on the original site of Sutter's fort, began to flourish as the center of an agricultural empire that provided food to feed the thousands of miners working in the hills as well as a place of financial exchange of all the gold that was mined.

Sacramento River was officially established in 1850 and was recognized as the state capital in 1854.

The Sacramento River basin receives "two-thirds to three-quarters of northern California's precipitation though it has only one-third to one-quarter of the land.

The San Joaquin Sacramento River watershed occupies two-thirds to three-quarters of northern California's land, but only collects one-third to one-quarter of the precipitation.

The Sutter Bypass begins at Colusa and runs parallel to the east side of the Sacramento River until reaching the confluence with the Feather River.

Seasonally flooded rice paddies in the Sacramento River Valley comprise a large portion of the habitat currently used by migrating birds.

The Nigiri project has demonstrated off-season agriculture fields such as the rice fields under the Yolo Bypass next to Sacramento River can serve as an important floodplain habitat and feeding ground for juvenile or endangered fish.

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Sacramento River fall chinook stock is the driver of commercial and recreational salmon fisheries off California and most of Oregon.

In 1995, a gate on the Folsom Dam on the American Sacramento River broke open, causing the river's flow to rise by some 40, 000 cubic feet per second.

The water traveled down the Sacramento and washed into the Pacific; the influx of fresh water was such that it confused thousands of anadromous fish to begin migrating up the river, thinking that the river had risen because of late-autumn storms.