| Los Alamitos Creek Arroyo de los Alamitos [1] | |
|---|---|
 Los Alamitos Creek | |
  Location of the mouth in California | |
| Etymology | Spanish language |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Region | Santa Clara County |
| City | San Jose, California |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Almaden Reservoir |
| • location | 10 mi (16 km) west of Morgan Hill, California |
| • coordinates | 37°9′56″N 121°49′34″W / 37.16556°N 121.82611°W[2] |
| Mouth | Guadalupe River |
• location | San Jose, California |
• coordinates | 37°14′48″N 121°52′16″W / 37.24667°N 121.87111°W[2] |
• elevation | 194 ft (59 m) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • right | Arroyo Calero |
Alamitos Creek or Los Alamitos Creek[2] is a 7.7-mile-long (12.4 km)[3] creek in San Jose, California, which becomes the Guadalupe River when it exits Lake Almaden and joins Guadalupe Creek. Los Alamitos Creek is located in Almaden Valley and originates from the Los Capitancillos Ridge in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near New Almaden. This creek flows through the Valley's Guadalupe Watershed, which is owned by the Santa Clara Valley Water District. The creek flows in a generally northwesterly direction after rounding the Los Capitancillos Ridge and the town of New Almaden, in the southwest corner, before ambling along the Santa Teresa Hills on northeast side of the Almaden Valley. Its environment has some relatively undisturbed areas and considerable lengths of suburban residential character. Originally called Arroyo de los Alamitos, the creek's name is derived from "little poplar", "alamo" being the Spanish word for "poplar" or "cottonwood".[4]
- ^ David L. Durham (2001). Durham's Place Names of California's San Francisco Bay Area: Includes Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Contra Costa, Alameda, Solano & Santa Clara counties. Word Dancer Press. p. 4. ISBN 9781884995354.
- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Alamitos Creek
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 15, 2011
- ^ Erwin G. Gudde, William Bright (2004). California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names. University of California Press. p. 6. ISBN 9780520242173.