Las Garzas Creek (Carmel River tributary)

This article is about Las Garzas Creek in Monterey County, California. For Garzas Creek in Merced County, California, see Garzas Creek.
Las Garzas Creek
Arroyo de las Garzas[1][2]
Carmel River Watershed Map with major tributaries, National Marine Fisheries Service 2013
Las Garzas Creek (Carmel River tributary) is located in California
Las Garzas Creek (Carmel River tributary)
Location of the mouth of Las Garzas Creek in Carmel Valley, California
Location
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
RegionMonterey County
MunicipalityCarmel Valley, California
Physical characteristics
SourceSouthern flank of Patriarch Ridge, on the northeastern slope of the Santa Lucia Range
 • coordinates36°26′20″N 121°51′17″W / 36.43889°N 121.85472°W / 36.43889; -121.85472[3]
 • elevation2,814 ft (858 m)
MouthConfluence with the Carmel River
 • location
Carmel Valley, California
 • coordinates
36°29′32″N 121°45′04″W / 36.49222°N 121.75111°W / 36.49222; -121.75111[3]
 • elevation
217 ft (66 m)[3]
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • rightSalsipuedes Creek, Cienega Creek

Las Garzas Creek is a 9.0-mile-long (14.5 km)[4] northeastward-flowing stream, the lowermost major tributary of the Carmel River. It originates about 1.2 miles (1.9 km) southeast of Palo Corona summit[5] on a saddle between Patriarch Ridge[6] and an unnamed peak to its south. This saddle is part of the east-west watershed divide of the northern Santa Lucia Range.[7] The creek flows almost entirely through the Santa Lucia Preserve to its confluence with the Carmel River in Carmel Valley, Monterey County, California.[2]

  1. ^ Erwin G. Gudde; William Bright (2010). California Place Names–The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-520-26619-3.
  2. ^ a b Donald Thomas Clark (1991). Monterey County Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary. Irvine, Scotland: Kestrel Press. ISBN 978-1-880478-00-4.
  3. ^ a b c "Las Garzas Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  4. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived March 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 15, 2011
  5. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Palo Corona
  6. ^ "Patriarch Ridge". Big Sur Land Trust. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
  7. ^ "Santa Lucia Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.