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San Jose
San Jose (California) is a city at the southern end of San Francisco Bay in Santa Clara County, California. One of the largest cities in population in the United States, San Jose lays claim to being the capital of Silicon Valley, a nickname for a swath of communities engaged in high-technology research and manufacturing.
The city is in the Santa Clara Valley, with the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west and the Diablo Range to the east. The center of the city is about 17 km (about 11 mi) from the marshy shore of San Francisco Bay. San Jose enjoys a mild climate year round, with an average of 300 sunny days per year. Annual precipitation averages 380 mm (15 in), with most of it falling from November through March. In January the average high temperature is 14° C (58° F) and the average low 5° C (41° F); in July the temperature averages a high of 28° C (82° F) and a low of 14° C (57° F).
San Jose was founded along the banks of the Guadalupe River in 1777 as the first civil settlement in Spanish California. The settlement was called El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, named for Saint Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary. |
