Sacramento River
The Sacramento River is the principal river of Northern California in the United States and is the largest river in California. Rising in the Klamath Mountains, the river flows south for 400 miles before reaching the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and San Francisco Bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: River
- Description: river in Northern and Central California, United States
- Also known as: “Bonaventura River”, “Buena Ventura River”, “Buenaventura River”, “Destruction River”, “Rio De San Roque”, “Sacramento (river)”, “Sacramento river”, “Sacramento River (United States)”, and “Sacramento River, California”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rio Vista and Antioch.
Rio Vista
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rio Vista is in the California Delta in Solano County in the Sacramento Valley region of California. Rio Vista sits on the northwest bank of the Sacramento River.
Antioch
Antioch is the third-most populous city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city is located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area along the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta.
Sacramento River
- Category: body of water
- Location: Contra Costa, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.08431° or 38° 5′ 4″ northLongitude
-121.75037° or 121° 45′ 1″ westElevation
-10 feet (-3 metres)Open location code
84CW36MX+PVOpenStreetMap ID
way 1280137320OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=riverGeoNames ID
5389630Wikidata ID
Q335575
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Satellite Map
Discover Sacramento River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Sacramento River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر سكرامنتو”
- Armenian: “Սակրամենտո (գետ)”
- Armenian: “Սակրամենտո”
- Asturian: “Ríu Sacramento”
- Belarusian: “Сакрамента (рака)”
- Belarusian: “Сакрамента”
- Bengali: “স্যাক্রামেন্টো নদী”
- Bulgarian: “Сакраменто”
- Catalan: “riu Sacramento”
- Catalan: “Riu Sacramento”
- Cebuano: “Sacramento River (suba sa Tinipong Bansa, California, Contra Costa County)”
- Cebuano: “Sacramento River”
- Chinese: “沙加缅度河”
- Chinese: “萨克拉曼多河”
- Chinese: “萨克拉门托河”
- Chinese: “薩克拉門托河”
- Chuvash: “Сакраменто”
- Croatian: “Sacramento”
- Czech: “Sacramento River”
- Czech: “Sacramento”
- Danish: “Sacramento River”
- Dutch: “Sacramento River”
- Dutch: “Sacramento”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ساكرامينتو”
- Esperanto: “Sakramento-Rivero”
- Estonian: “Sacramento jõgi”
- Finnish: “Sacramento”
- Finnish: “Sacramentojoki”
- French: “Sacramento River”
- French: “Sacramento”
- German: “Sacramento River”
- Hebrew: “נהר סקרמנטו”
- Hebrew: “סקרמנטו”
- Hungarian: “Sacramento folyó”
- Hungarian: “Sacramento”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Sacramento”
- Irish: “Abhainn Shacramento”
- Irish: “An Abhainn Shacramento”
- Italian: “Fiume Sacramento”
- Italian: “Sacramento”
- Japanese: “サクラメント川”
- Korean: “새크라멘토 강”
- Korean: “새크라멘토강”
- Limburgan: “Sacramento”
- Lithuanian: “Sakramentas”
- Luxembourgish: “Sacramento River”
- Macedonian: “Сакраменто (река)”
- Macedonian: “Сакраменто”
- Malayalam: “സാക്രമെൻറൊ നദി,”
- Malayalam: “സാക്രമെൻറൊ നദി”
- Mingrelian: “საკრამენტო (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “საკრამენტო”
- Mongolian: “Сакраменто (гол)”
- Mongolian: “Сакраменто”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Feather”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sacramento River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sacramento”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sacramentoelva”
- Norwegian: “Sacramento”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sacramento (flume)”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sacramento”
- Persian: “رود ساکرامنتو”
- Persian: “رودخانه ساکرامنتو”
- Persian: “رودخانهٔ ساکرامنتو”
- Polish: “Sacramento”
- Portuguese: “Rio Sacramento”
- Romanian: “Râul Sacramento”
- Romanian: “Sacramento River”
- Russian: “Сакраменто”
- Serbian: “Сакраменто”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sacramento”
- Slovenian: “reka Sacramento”
- Slovenian: “Sacramento River”
- Slovenian: “Sacramento”
- South Azerbaijani: “ساکرامنتو چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Sacramento”
- Spanish: “Río Sacramento”
- Swahili: “Mto Sacramento”
- Swedish: “Sacramento River”
- Turkish: “Sacramento Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Сакраменто”
- Urdu: “دریائے سکرامنٹو”
- Venetian: “Sacramento”
- Vietnamese: “sông Sacramento”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Sacramento”
- Welsh: “Afon Sacramento”
- Western Panjabi: “دریائے ساکرامنٹو”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Toland Landing and Emmaton.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sacramento and Decker Island Wildlife Area.
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