San Tomas Aquino Creek

San Tomas Aquinas Creek
Arroyo de San Tomás Aquinas, San Tomas Aquino Creek
San Tomas Aquino Creek in Santa Clara running alongside Levi's Stadium
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Location
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
RegionSanta Clara County
CitiesSaratoga, Monte Sereno, Los Gatos, Campbell, Santa Clara, San Jose
Physical characteristics
SourceEl Sereno Summit in the Santa Cruz Mountains[1]
 • locationSaratoga, California
 • coordinates37°13′04″N 122°01′32″W / 37.21778°N 122.02556°W / 37.21778; -122.02556[2]
 • elevation2,400 ft (730 m)
MouthGuadalupe Slough in South San Francisco Bay
 • location
Sunnyvale, California
 • coordinates
37°23′20″N 121°58′07″W / 37.38889°N 121.96861°W / 37.38889; -121.96861[2]
 • elevation
13 ft (4.0 m)[2]
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • leftWildcat Creek, Saratoga Creek
 • rightMistletoe Creek, Smith Creek

San Tomas Aquinas Creek, known locally as San Tomas Aquino Creek, is a 16.5-mile-long (26.6 km) stream[2] that heads on El Sereno mountain in El Sereno Open Space Preserve in Saratoga, California in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It flows north through the cities of Saratoga, Monte Sereno, Los Gatos, Campbell, Santa Clara and San Jose before its confluence with the Guadalupe Slough in south San Francisco Bay.

Roger Castillo, a founder of the Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Group, with a huge Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), now a taxidermy wall mount specimen, that he recovered from San Tomas Aquino Creek below Highway 237 in mid-October, 1996.
  1. ^ "El Sereno Summit". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ a b c d U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: San Tomas Aquinas Creek