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Cultural history. References. External links. Santa Cruz Mountains. Coordinates: 37°7′N 121°51′W. The Santa Cruz Mountains ( Mutsun Ohlone: Mak-sah-re-jah, "Sharp Ridged Mountain of the Eagle" or "People of the Eagle Mountain") are a mountain range in central and Northern California, United States, constituting a part of the Pacific Coast Ranges.
Mount Umunhum (/ ˈ ʌ m ə n ʌ m / UH-mə-num) is a peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, located in Santa Clara County, California. It is the fourth-highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains, after Loma Prieta, Crystal Peak, and Mt. Chual. Most of the mountain is located within the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve.
Loma Prieta (from Spanish loma-hill, prieta-dark) is 3,790 feet (1,160 m) high and is the highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. [3] Although the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was named for this mountain, the actual epicenter was five miles southwest of the peak, across the San Andreas fault , in The Forest of ...
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Explore Santa Cruz Mountains with the PeakVisor 3D Map and identify its summits. Rising up dramatically from San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean, the Santa Cruz Mountains are a collection of peaks in the US state of California. The range is home to 125 named peaks, the highest and most prominent of which is.
Loma Prieta is the tallest mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountain Range being 3806 feet high and is located about 15 miles south of San Jose, California. Donald Clark, in his book Santa Cruz County Place Names, reports that the name is of Spanish-Mexican origin and means “a high chaparral covered point that looks black in the distance”.
Overview. The Santa Cruz Mountain Range occupies most of the San Francisco Peninsula and stretches south, separating the cities of San Jose and Santa Cruz. A vast array of flora exists in the Santa Cruz Mounatins, with misty redwood forests dominating the northern part of the range, to dense chaparral-covered hillsides in the south.
