California Beach House

Why not get a beach house in California. It can be a super place to have beach house. You may want one in one of the coastal towns. You may want one in rural area away from other big towns and cities. Often there a exclusive areas where you get highg status from owning a beach house. A beachhouse in the are can be a super idea. Mnay people enjoy the idea of having some or a beachouses. This can give them an opprtuniy to view the coastline or beach. maybe to see a well know destination. You may want to use the beach house for tourism you may just rent the beach house for a vacation or you may buy the beach house and use the beach house to use most of the time. You may wanrt to retire to the area. You may want to rent, sell, buy, hire, loan a house in the area.

California adjoins the Pacific Ocean, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, and the Mexican state of Baja California. With an area of 160,000 square miles it is the third largest state in the USA in size, after Alaska and Texas.

In the middle of the state lies the California Central Valley, bounded by the coastal mountain ranges in the west, the Sierra Nevada to the east, the Cascade Range in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south. The Central Valley is California's agricultural heartland and grows approximately one 3ird of the nation's food. Divided in two by the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the northern portion, the Sacramento Valley serves as the watershed of the Sacramento River, while the southern portion, the San Joaquin Valley is the watershed for the San Joaquin River; both areas derive their names from the rivers that transit them. With dredging, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin Rivers have remained sufficiently deep that several inland cities are seaports.

The Sierra Nevada (Spanish for "snowy range") include the highest peak in the contiguous forty eight states, Mount Whitney, at 14,505 ft.

The state is home to Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous US, as well as the second lowest and hottest place in the Western Hemisphere, Death Valley.

To the east of the Sierra Nevada are Owens Valley and Mono Lake, an essential migratory bird habitat. In the western part of the state is Clear Lake, the largest freshwater lake by area entirely in California. Though Lake Tahoe is larger, it is divided by the California/Nevada border. The Sierra Nevada falls to Arctic temperatures in winter and has several dozen small glaciers, including Palisade Glacier, the southernmost glacier in the United States.

About 35 percent of the state's total surface area is covered by forests, and California's diversity of pine species is unmatched by any other state. California contains more forestland than any other state except Alaska. Many of the trees in the California White Mountains are the oldest in the world; one Bristlecone pine has an age of 4,700 years.

In the south is a large inland salt lake, the Salton Sea. Deserts in California make up about 25 % of the total surface area. The south central desert is called the Mojave; to the northeast of the Mojave lies Death Valley, which contains the lowest, hottest point in North America, Badwater Flat. The distance from the lowest point of Death Valley to the peak of Mount Whitney is less than 200 miles. Indeed, almost all of southeastern California is arid, hot desert, with routine extreme high temperatures during the summer.

Along the California coast are several major metropolitan areas, including Greater Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and San Diego.

California is famous for earthquakes due to a number of faults, in particular the San Andreas Fault. It is vulnerable to tsunamis, floods, droughts, Santa Ana winds, wildfires, and landslides on steep terrain, and has several volcanoes.

Coastal towns in California

Albion, California
Aptos, California
Avalon, California
Avila Beach, California

Bayview, California
Bellvale, California
Bodega Bay, California
Bolinas, California

Cambria, California
Capitola, California
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California
Carlsbad, California
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Carpinteria, California
Cayucos, California
Corona del Mar, Newport Beach, California
Coronado, California
Crescent City, California

Dana Point, California
Del Mar, California
Dillon Beach, California

El Granada, California
El Segundo, California
Elk, California
Encinitas, California

Ferndale, California
Fort Bragg, California

Goleta, California
Grover Beach, California
Gualala, California

Half Moon Bay,

Hermosa Beach, California
Humboldt Hill, California
Huntington Beach, California

Imperial Beach, California
Inverness Park, California
Inverness, California

Jenner, California

La Conchita, California
La Jolla, San Diego, California
La Selva Beach, California
Laguna Beach, California
Little River, California
Long Beach, California
Los Osos, California

Malibu, California
Manhattan Beach, California
Marina del Rey, California
Marina, California
Marshall, California
McKinleyville, California
Mendocino, California
Mission Beach, San Diego, California
Montara, California
Montecito, California
Monterey, California
Morro Bay, California
Moss Beach, California
Moss Landing, California
Muir Beach, California

Newport Beach, California

Oceano, California
Oceanside, California

Oxnard, California

Pacific Beach, San Diego, California
Pacific Grove, California
Pacifica, California
Palos Verdes Estates, California
Pescadero, California
Petrolia, California
Pismo Beach, California
Point Arena, California
Port Hueneme, California

Redondo Beach, California

Salmon Creek, California
Samoa, California
San Gregorio, California
San Simeon, California
Sand City, California
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Cruz, California
Santa Monica, California
Sea Ranch, California
Seal Beach, California
Seaside, California
Shelter Cove, California
Solana Beach, California
Stinson Beach, California
Summerland, California
Sunset Beach, California
Surfside, California

Trinidad, California

Venice, Los Angeles, California
Ventura, California

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