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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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And in the San Joaquin Valley, an agricultural retailer with a history of pesticide safety violations was cited for failing to provide protective equipment for workers and post emergency medical information in the fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

A massive family-owned winery spanning San Joaquin and Sacramento counties is for sale after struggling to survive the Canadian boycott of U.S. alcohol.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

The person traversed the state on trains and thruway buses with transfers in six counties: Alameda, Butte, Kern, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Joaquin, the California Department of Public Health said in a news release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 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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