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Salinas River (California)
The Salinas River is the largest river of the central coast of California, running and draining 4,160 square miles. It flows north-northwest and drains the Salinas Valley that slices through the central California Coast Ranges south of Monterey Bay. The Salinas River is a wildlife corridor, and provides the principal source of water from its reservoirs and tributaries for the farms and vineyards of the valley.
==Toponymy==
The origin of the name for the river is somewhat ambiguous. It did not, however, receive its name during the Spanish or the Mexican eras. It was first encountered by the Spanish Portola Expedition on September 27, 1769, and so was named for the saint celebrated on that day, San Elizario.〔 However, it subsequently appeared on many maps as the ''Rio de Monterey'' and its valley was called the ''Valle de Monterey''. It was called ''Rio de Monterey'' by Fr. Pedro Font on March 4, 1776 and the ''Monterey River'' as late as 1850. It first appears on an American map in 1858 as the ''Rio Salinas'', perhaps because of the large salt flats noted near its mouth in that era.
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