Romero Creek, originally El Arroyo de Romero, is a
tributary
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stream of the
San Joaquin River
The San Joaquin River ( ; ) is the longest river of Central California. The long river starts in the high Sierra Nevada and flows through the rich agricultural region of the northern San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suisun Bay, San Francis ...
. Its source drains the slopes of the
Diablo Range
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within the
Central Valley of
California
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, United States.
The Creek has its source in
Stanislaus County
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Stanislaus County makes up the Modesto metropolitan statistic ...
in a canyon a half mile east of Bone Spring Hill, 2509 feet high, near Eagle Spring, about 12 1/2 miles from its mouth just east of where it emerges from the foothills in
Merced County
Merced County ( ) is a county located in the northern San Joaquin Valley section of the Central Valley, in the U.S. state of California.
As of the 2020 census, the population was 281,202. The county seat is Merced. The county is named after ...
, shortly ending where it meets the
Delta Mendota Canal.
History
El Arroyo de Romero was a watering place on
El Camino Viejo
El Camino Viejo a Los Ángeles (), also known as El Camino Viejo and the Old Los Angeles Trail, was the oldest north-south trail in the interior of Spanish colonial Las Californias (1769–1822) and Mexican Alta California (1822–1848), present d ...
in the
San Joaquin Valley
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between
Arroyo de Quinto and
Arroyo de San Luis Gonzaga.
[Mildred B. Hoover, et al. Historic Spots in California. 3rd edition. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1966, p.202.]
References
Rivers of Merced County, California
El Camino Viejo
Rivers of Northern California
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