Purisima Creek (San Mateo County)

This article is about Purisima Creek (San Mateo County). For Purisima Creek (Santa Clara County), see Purisima Creek (Santa Clara County).
Purisima Creek
Another view of the creek

Purisima Creek is an 8.0-mile-long (12.9 km)[1] stream in San Mateo County, California[2] which rises 1.3 miles (2.1 km) north of Sierra Morena, a mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and flows westward to the Pacific Ocean 2.3 miles (3.7 km) south-southeast of Miramontes Point.[3] Much of its watershed has been incorporated in the Purisima Creek Redwoods Open Space Preserve.

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 15, 2011
  2. ^ USGS, 09-20-07
  3. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Purisima Creek