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San Joaquin

American  
[san wo-keen] / ˌsæn wɒˈkin /

noun

  1. a river in California, flowing NW from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Sacramento River. 350 miles (560 km) long.


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In 2007, she joined the San Joaquin County district attorney’s office, where she prosecuted misdemeanors and felonies and later served in the Domestic Violence and Child Abduction units.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

The San Joaquin River Parkway in Fresno and Madera counties would join various properties into an 874-acre state park directly upriver from the city of Fresno, with parkland on both sides of the river.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

They’ll say that farming is unsustainable in the San Joaquin Valley, a region of incomparable fertility that produces more than half of California’s agricultural output.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Artist and parent Marissa Magdalena Sykes, who grew up in the San Joaquin Valley and is the first in her family to not work in the fields, chimed in.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

All summer They have lived On candies and plums, Bunches of grapes From their tw In the San Joaquin Valley.

From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto

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