| Aptos Creek Arroyo de Outos[1] | |
|---|---|
 Aptos Creek at Spreckels Boulevard bridge in April, 2017 | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Region | Santa Cruz County |
| City | Aptos |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Southwest flank of Santa Rosalia Mountain |
| • coordinates | 37°04′19″N 121°51′26″W / 37.07194°N 121.85722°W[2] |
| • elevation | 2,502 ft (763 m)[3] |
| Mouth | Monterey Bay |
• coordinates | 36°58′11″N 121°54′22″W / 36.96972°N 121.90611°W[3] |
• elevation | 7 ft (2.1 m)[2] |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Mangels Gulch, Valencia Creek |
| • right | Bridge Creek |
Aptos Creek is a southward flowing 9.5 miles (15.3 km) creek that begins on Santa Rosalia Mountain on the southwestern slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Cruz County, California and enters Monterey Bay, at Seacliff State Beach in Aptos, California.[3]
- ^ Donald Thomas Clark (1986). Santa Cruz County Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary. Santa Cruz, California: Santa Cruz Historical Trust. ISBN 978-0940283015.
- ^ a b "Aptos Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed April 9, 2017