Located on a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. To its south are the suburbs of San Mateo county, to the east and northeast is the bay, and to the west and northwest, the Pacific Ocean. San Francisco Bay is one of the most beautiful harbor of the world.

In 1776, the Spanish settled and named the mission after Francis of Assisi. The Gold Rush in 1848 has a significant growth impact on the city. The city was nearly destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire. The earth quake was later estimated to have a moment magnitude of from 7.7 to 8.25. The ground shifted as much as 21 feet along more than 270 miles of the San Andreas fault. Buildings partially or completely collapsed, gas and water mains broke and hundreds of people were killed and left as much as three quarters of the population homeless.
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The MLB team Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are based in Anaheim, California, The Angels Stadium has been home of the LA Angels since 1966. The Anaheim Angels are part of the American League Western Division.

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Angel Stadium of Anaheim. Stadium capacity as of 2005 is 45,050.
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The MLB team Los Angeles Dodgers are based in Los Angeles, California, The Dodger Stadium has been home of the LA Dodgers since 1966 .
The Los Angeles Dodgers are part of the American League Western Division.

Stadium

Dodger Stadium. Stadium capacity is 56,000.
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San Jose is located in the Santa Clara Valley which extends to the southeast from San Francisco Bay. Long before Europeans arrived in California, thousands of Native Americans lived along the coastal lands from San Francisco to Big Sur. In 1776, Captain Juan Bautista de Anza founded El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe on November 29, 1777 it was the first town in the Spanish colony Nueva California. Its name is derived from Saint Joseph, patron saint of pioneers and travelers, and from the Guadalupe River.

California became a possession of the United States at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 with the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Throughout the late 1800s and into the first half of the 20th century, San Jose, like the rest of Santa Clara Valley, grew on agriculture, producing orchard fruits, berries, tree nuts, and vegetables, as well as packaging, canning, and shipping it.
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Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the discoverer of California, sailed into what is now San Diego Bay and claimed the surrounding region for the King of Spain in 1542. The first European settlement there was established in 1769, when the Franciscan fathers established a mission on a hill overlooking the bay. The mission was the first in a chain of twenty-one that the Franciscans built in California. In 1602 Spanish explorer Sebastian Vizcaino arrives with his flagship San Diego, and names the area for a Spanish Catholic saint, San Diego de Alcalá.

By the 1830s, a small but thriving trading village had developed on the bay, in the district now called “Old Town.” The town became an important shipping point for cattle hide and quarried stone. It is said that the cobblestone streets of Boston have been paved with San Diego stone.
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