Soquel Creek
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| Soquel Creek Rosario del Beato Serafin de Asculi[1] | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Region | Santa Cruz County |
| Cities | Soquel, Capitola |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Southern Santa Cruz Mountains |
| • coordinates | 37°06′37″N 121°54′38″W / 37.11028°N 121.91056°W |
| • elevation | 3,000 ft (910 m)[2] |
| Mouth | Monterey Bay |
• coordinates | 36°58′18″N 121°57′07″W / 36.97167°N 121.95194°W |
• elevation | 0 ft (0 m)[2] |
| Length | 16 mi (26 km)[2] |
| Basin size | 42 sq mi (110 km2)[2] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | USGS Soquel Creek gage (11160000)[2] |
| • minimum | 405 cu ft/s (11.5 m3/s)[3] |
| • maximum | 15,800 cu ft/s (450 m3/s)[3] |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | West Branch Soquel Creek, Burns Creek, Laurel Creek, Hester Creek |
| • right | East Branch Soquel Creek, Fern Gulch, Asbury Gulch, Amaya Creek, Hinckley Creek |
Soquel Creek is a southward flowing 16 miles (26 km) creek that begins in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Cruz County, California and enters Monterey Bay at Capitola Beach in Capitola, California.
The redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests of the middle and upper watershed were heavily logged during the second half of the 1800s, and into the twentieth century. Most of today's forests are second growth, with most trees now over one hundred years old.
Water quality of the creek is measured by the County of Santa Cruz.[4]
