Las Garzas Creek | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | California |
Region | Monterey County |
Municipality | Carmel Valley, California |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Southern flank of Patriarch Ridge, on the northeastern slope of the Santa Lucia Range |
• coordinates | 36°26′20″N 121°51′17″W / 36.43889°N 121.85472°W[3] |
• elevation | 2,814 ft (858 m) |
Mouth | Confluence with the Carmel River |
• location | Carmel Valley, California |
• coordinates | 36°29′32″N 121°45′04″W / 36.49222°N 121.75111°W[3] |
• elevation | 217 ft (66 m)[3] |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• right | Salsipuedes 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]