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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Example Sentences

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

He told The Times he has spoken about his video setup in Kern and San Joaquin counties and discussed it with candidates for state office.

From Los Angeles Times

ARVIN, Calif. — In the southern San Joaquin Valley, where roads cut through thousands of acres of orange groves, grapevines and carrot fields, a canal reaches a linchpin that keeps the farming economy going: dozens of oblong ponds filled with shimmering water.

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Some projects in the San Joaquin Valley are successful and well-known enough that water managers and researchers have visited from other parts of the world, including China and Ukraine, to see how agencies are doing it, Muhar said.

From Los Angeles Times

Bursting into national prominence in the mid-1960s in the San Joaquin Valley, Chavez galvanized public support on behalf of them after organizing community groups across Central and Southern California.

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