The Carrizo Creek and Carrizo Wash in California are a stream and an arroyo in San Diego County, California, and Imperial County, California.
The stream, Carrizo Creek, arises in the mountains of San Diego County, California, and terminates in Carrizo Wash in Imperial County, a tributary in turn to San Felipe Creek that terminates in the Salton Sea.[1]
The source of California's Carrizo Creek is in San Diego County, 1.2 miles north of the California–Mexico State boundary, at 32°38′09″N 116°07′05″W / 32.63583°N 116.11806°W at an elevation of 3,210 feet, on the west side of the divide between Jacumba Valley and the valley of upper Boulder Creek. Carrizo Creek flows west then north northwest through Jacumba Valley then north through Carrizo Gorge and Carrizo Canyon, into Carrizo Valley where it is joined on the left by Vallecito Creek, as it turns east through the Carrizo Badlands where 3 miles east of the site of the old Carrizo Creek Station, at an elevation of 322 feet (98 meters), it becomes Carrizo Wash.[1] Carrizo Wash terminates at its confluence with San Felipe Creek at 33°05′54″N 115°55′38″W / 33.09833°N 115.92722°W.