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Canyon

Canyon, formerly known as Sequoya or Sequoia Canyon, Elkhorn, and The Redwoods, is an unincorporated community located near the border of and counties, in the U.S. state of .
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: unincorporated community located near the border of Contra Costa in the U.S. state of California
  • Also known as: “Canyon, CA”, “Canyon, California”, and “Sequoya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chabot Space and Science Center and Roberts Regional Recreation Area.

Museum
Photo: Daniel Olsen, CC BY 2.5.
, located in , is a center for learning in Earth and space science, which features interactive exhibits, planetariums, a large screen theater, hands-on activities, and three powerful telescopes.

Recreation area
is an area adjacent to Redwood Regional Park located in Alameda County next to Oakland, CA and is part of the East Bay Regional Parks.

Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a large open space park in the owned and operated by the city of , . It is named after early California writer and poet Joaquin Miller, who bought the land in the 1880s, naming it "The Hights", and lived in the house preserved as the . is situated 1½ miles southwest of Canyon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Piedmont Pines and Oakland Hills.

Neighborhood
is an affluent residential neighborhood in the hills of . It is generally bounded by Highway 13 to the west, Shepherd Canyon Rd. to the north, Skyline Blvd. to the east, and to the south. is situated 1½ miles west of Canyon.

Suburb
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an informal term used to indicate the city neighborhoods lying within the eastern portion of , . The northernmost neighborhoods were devastated by the Oakland firestorm of 1991. is situated 2 miles southwest of Canyon.

Photo: JD Lisa, Public domain.
is in in the Bay Area of . It is part of the --Moraga trifecta that locals call Lamorinda.

Canyon

Latitude
37.83031° or 37° 49′ 49″ north
Longitude
-122.16587° or 122° 9′ 57″ west
Elevation
1,142 feet (348 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US NYO
Open location code
849VRRJM+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150937256
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5333937
Wiki­data ID
Q3477828
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Satellite Map

Discover Canyon from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Bavarian to Volapük—“Canyon” goes by many names.
  • Bavarian: “Canyon”
  • Bavarian: “Sequoya”
  • Chinese: “Canyon”
  • Chinese: “峽谷”
  • Czech: “Canyon”
  • Czech: “Sequoya”
  • Danish: “Canyon”
  • Danish: “Sequoya”
  • Dutch: “Canyon”
  • Dutch: “Sequoya”
  • Finnish: “Canyon”
  • Finnish: “Sequoya”
  • French: “Canyon”
  • French: “Sequoya”
  • German: “Canyon”
  • German: “Sequoya”
  • Irish: “Canyon”
  • Italian: “Canyon”
  • Italian: “Sequoya”
  • Low German: “Canyon”
  • Low German: “Sequoya”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Canyon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Canyon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sequoya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Canyon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sequoya”
  • Persian: “کانیون، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “کانیون”
  • Polish: “Canyon”
  • Polish: “Sequoya”
  • Portuguese: “Canyon”
  • Portuguese: “Sequoya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کانیون، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Canyon”
  • Spanish: “Sequoya”
  • Swedish: “Canyon”
  • Swedish: “Sequoya”
  • Turkish: “Canyon”
  • Turkish: “Sequoya”
  • Volapük: “Canyon”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Canyon”. Photo: Miskatonic, CC BY 2.5.