Sacramento

Sacramento, the largest river of California, rises in the north-eastern part of the state, its head-stream, Pitt River, draining Goose Lake, and flows south-west through the Sierra Nevada to Shasta, south to Sacramento, and thence south-south-west into Suisun Bay, through which its waters pass into San Pablo Bay and so to the Pacific Ocean. Its length is about 500 miles, and it is navigable for small vessels to Red Bluff, nearly 250 miles. A few miles above its mouth it receives the San Joaquin; and with this and other tributaries it drains the great central valley of the state.