San Joaquin River - Tributaries of the San Joaquin River, Merced River, San Joaquin Valley, Stanislaus River, Tuolumne River, Chowchilla River (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Tributaries of the San Joaquin River, Merced River, San Joaquin Valley, Stanislaus River, Tuolumne River, Chowchilla River, Falls Creek, Mokelumne River, Don Pedro Reservoir, Fresno River, Calaveras River, Suisun Bay, Millerton Lake, Cosumnes River, Mammoth Pool Reservoir, Dry Creek, Lake McClure, Thousand Island Lake, Pardee Dam, Pine Flat Lake, Clavey River, Yosemite Creek, Friant-Kern Canal, Hospital Creek, Madera Canal, Eastman Lake, Ingram Creek, Big Creek, Martha Lake. Excerpt: Merced River - a.new, #quickbar a.new/* cache key: enwiki: resourceloader: filter: minify-css:5: f2a9127573a22335c2a9102b208c73e7 */ Merced River Upper Yosemite Valley from Glacier PointTenaya, Yosemite, Bridalveil and Pigeon Creeks join the Merced before it breaches the glacial moraine at the valley's end. From there the river picks up Cascade Creek and turns south near El Portal, flowing through Merced River Canyon. State Route 140 follows the river out of the west entrance to the national park, a few miles before the South Fork Merced River, the largest tributary, joins from the left. The river arcs northwest to receive the North Fork, and a few miles after it enters Lake McClure, formed by New Exchequer Dam. The remainder of the river continues to flow west across the Central Valley before joining the San Joaquin River a few miles south of Turlock. The drainage basin of the Merced River is located in the central Sierra Nevada, spreading across 1,726 square miles (4,470 km). It can be characterized as the slightly smaller southern companion of the Tuolumne River, the major Sierran river just north of the Merced. On the south, the basin borders on the headwaters of the San Joaquin River itself. The Merced River watershed includes the subwatershe...