Temescal Creek
Temescal Creek is one of the principal watercourses in the city of Oakland, California, United States. The word "temescal" is derived from temescalli/temazcalli, which means "sweat house" in the Nahuatl language of Mexico.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: River in California, United States
- Also known as: “Arrollo De Los Juchiyunes”, “Arrollo De Temescal”, and “Arroyo de Temescal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Temescal Regional Recreational Area and Lake Temescal.
Temescal Regional Recreational Area
Park
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Temescal Regional Recreation Area, formerly Lake Temescal Regional Park, is a regional park in the Berkeley Hills, in northeastern Oakland, California.
Lake Temescal
Reservoir
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Lake Temescal is a small reservoir in the Oakland hills, in northeastern Oakland, California. It is the centerpiece of Temescal Regional Recreational Area, also known as Temescal Regional Park. It is a part of the East Bay Regional Park District.
Mountain View Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Hank Chapot, CC BY 3.0.
The Mountain View Cemetery is a 226-acre rural cemetery in Oakland, California, United States. It was established in 1863 by a group of East Bay pioneers under the California Rural Cemetery Act of 1859.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rockridge and Claremont.
Rockridge
Neighborhood
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Rockridge is a residential neighborhood and commercial district in Oakland, California. Rockridge is generally defined as the area east of Telegraph Avenue, south of the Berkeley city limits, west of the Oakland Hills and north of the intersection of Pleasant Valley Avenue/51st Street and Broadway.
Claremont
Neighborhood
The Claremont district is a neighborhood straddling the city limits of Oakland and Berkeley in the East Bay section of the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States.
Piedmont
Town
Photo: Sam Pullara, CC BY 2.0.
Oakland is a port city in the Bay Area of California in the United States of America. Once an industrial area overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger neighbor to the west, this city of 440,000 people has begun to step out from under San Francisco's shadow with its notable natural and architectural features and its rise as the multicultural "hipster" city of the Bay Area.
Temescal Creek
- Category: body of water
- Location: Alameda, California, United States, North America
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