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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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The are no biomass plants left in the southern San Joaquin Valley, he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

“Yes, there are laws,” said Jesus, his face wrinkled from years of harvesting garlic, pruning grape vines and picking blackberries in the sun-baked San Joaquin Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The offers are pouring in to fill the abandoned prison site, said San Joaquin County Supervisor Robert Rickman, who was mayor of Tracy from 2016-2020.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Over an alfalfa field in California's San Joaquin Valley, a small crop-spraying plane is flying scarily low to the ground.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

When my two new parents finally made it to our singlestory, stucco house in a development at the end of the San Joaquin Valley, their nerves were both shot.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

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