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California is located in the western United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The third largest state in the Union, California covers an area of great physical diversity in which uplands dominate the landscape. The mountains, hills, ridges, and peaks of California flank the coastline, rise to nearly 15,000 ft in the towering Sierra Nevada, encircle the great fertile basin of the Central Valley, and separate the desert into innumerable basins. However, despite the physical dominance and economic value of the uplands, California’s urban areas and economic production are concentrated in the valleys and lowlands, such as in the huge metropolitan region centered on Los Angeles, the state’s largest and the nation’s second largest city.

California's leading industries include agriculture, manufacturing (transportation equipment, machinery, and electronic equipment), biotechnology, aerospace-defense, and tourism. Principal natural resources include timber, petroleum, cement, and natural gas. California is the most populous state. A 2006 real estate survey has estimated the population of California at 36,457,000.

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Agoura click here

Agoura Hills is located in southern California, 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The City has the advantages of being a city while maintaining a friendly, rural, small-town atmosphere. The City is the gateway to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

Anaheim click here

Anaheim is located in Orange County, in the southeast section of the metropolitan region centered on Los Angeles. It is a convention and tourist center. Disneyland amusement park and the large Anaheim Convention Center are located in the city.

Arcata

Charles McCann

Auburn

Patti & Charlie Hopper

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Bakersfield click here

Bakersfield is located in south central California, on the Kern River. It is situated at the southern end of the valley of the San Joaquin River. Bakersfield is a commercial, distribution, and manufacturing center situated in an agricultural and petroleum-producing region.

Banning

Banning Real Estate

Bonsall

Alvin Pavao

Bonsall Real Estate

Brentwood

Shari Davies

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Burbank

Bryan Ridgley, GRI, CRS, SRES, e-PRO, RECS
The OracleGroup, Keller Williams Realty
Phone: 818-788-7800

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Serving Los Angeles, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Hollywood Hills, Encino, Burbank, Toluca Lake, Valley Village, and the San Fernando Valley.

Chico

Sean Ballard
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Phone: 530-876-3305

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Colfax

Wyla Beatty

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Colton

Joan Trossen

Cottonwood

Kalin Maple

Cottonwood Real Estate

Del Cerro

Lynn Dasteel

Del Cerro Real Estate

El Cajon

Lon Underwood

El Cajon Real Estate

Encino

David Hitt
Coldwell Banker
Phone: 818-422-1702

Encino Real Estate
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Escondido

Myles Weisman

Escondido Real Estate

Eureka

Mark Faust

Fairfield

Darla Stever

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Fallbrook

Deborah Danko

Fallbrook Real Estate

4S Ranch

Bob Wilson

4S Ranch Real Estate

Fremont click here

Fremont is located in western California, on San Francisco Bay, north of San Jose. Fremont is part of a broad swath of communities collectively dubbed Silicon Valley for their many high-technology companies; manufactures include computers and computer manufacturing equipment.

Fresno click here

Fresno is located at the hub of the state’s fertile San Joaquin Valley, which is one of the richest farming areas in the United States. The region’s Mediterranean climate, which includes a warm, dry season, and a cool, damp season, contributes to Fresno’s agricultural bounty.

Gardena

Joanne Brown

Gardena Real Estate

Glendale click here

Glendale is located in southwestern California. The city is located at the junction of the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys. Glendale is a services and residential suburb of Los Angeles.

Hayfork

Nora Coon & Sandy Bechtold

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Hayward

Nancy Salonga

Hayward Real Estate

Hollywood Hills

Huntington Beach click here

Huntington Beach is located on the Pacific Ocean southeast of Long Beach, in the huge metropolitan expanse of the Los Angeles Basin. It is a commercial, industrial, and recreational center.

La Canada

Fran and Rowena

Laguna Hills

Frank Hill

Laguna Hills Real Estate

Laguna Niguel

Amanda Wheeland

Laguna Niguel Real Estate

La Quinta

Susan Eidler

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Lincoln

Wyla Beatty

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Livermore

Pam Cole

Livermore Real Estate

Long Beach click here

Long Beach is located in southwestern California, on San Pedro Bay. The city is located in a vast metropolitan region centered on Los Angeles. Long Beach is a major shipping, industrial, commercial, and resort center. The Port of Long Beach, adjacent to Los Angeles Harbor, is one of the nation’s largest container ports.

Los Alamitos

Michele Fieldson

Los Alamitos Real Estate

Los Angeles click here

Los Angeles is the second most populous city in the United States, exceeded only by New York City. It is one of the nation’s major industrial, commercial, and financial centers. Los Angeles is also noted for its balmy climate, lush scenery, motion-picture and television industries, freeways, and occasional earthquakes. Long established as the financial, commercial, and industrial capital of southern California, the sprawling Los Angeles metropolitan area is among the nation’s leading urban-industrial complexes.

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Malibu

Bill Rhodes

Malibu Real Estate

Milpitas click here

Milpitas is located in western California, just north of San Jose. The major industries include the manufacture of plastics and electrical and electronic equipment.

Mission Viejo

Steve Foster

Mission Viejo Real Estate

Montecito

Brook Ashley

Montecito Real Estate

Newport Beach

Larry Goudge

Newport Beach Real Estate

Oakland click here

Oakland is located in central California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay and a major industrial center and West Coast port. Oakland is among the most ethnically diverse cities in the United States. Oakland is one of the largest container-ship ports in North America.

Orange County click here

Once Walt Disney decided to locate Disneyland in Orange County, other theme parks and attractions followed suite. Orange County has emerged from obscurity to become almost as famous as Los Angeles, and perhaps the greatest single tourist destination in the region.

Palmdale

Carol Hansmann

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Palm Springs

Nancy Hankin

Palm Springs Real Estate

Paradise

Pasadena

Cheyenne Wilbur

Pasadena Real Estate

Pleasanton

Marta Miranda

Pleasanton Real Estate

Rancho Bernardo

Gretchen Pagnotta

Rancho Bernardo Real Estate

Rancho Mirage

Ralph W Haverkate

Rancho Mirage Real Estate

Rancho Santa Fe

John Lefferdink

Rancho Santa Fe Real Estate

Redlands

Joan Trossen

Riverside click here

Riverside is located in southwestern California, on the Santa Ana River. It is a center for growing and packing citrus fruits. Manufactures include irrigation equipment, housings for aircraft engines, electronic equipment, custom auto wheels, paper products, and plastics.

Rohnert Park

Pat Miller

Rohnert Park Real Estate

Royal Oaks

John Roque

E-mail: jdroque@abodeum.com

Sacramento click here

Sacramento is located in the central part of the state in the fertile Sacramento Valley. Sacramento is situated at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River.

San Bernardino click here

San Bernardino is located in southern California, at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains in the eastern extreme of a huge metropolitan region centered on Los Angeles. San Bernardino is a transportation, commercial, and residential center. Manufactures of the metropolitan area include furniture, food products, plastic products, aerospace and electronic equipment, and medical equipment.

San Diego click here

San Diego is located in the southwest corner of California. It is known for its superb climate and recreational attractions. The Pacific Ocean tempers the local climate. The summers are relatively cool and the winters are warm in comparison to other locales at the same general latitude. The total value of all the goods and services produced in San Diego make it one of the most powerful economies in the world.

San Francisco click here

San Francisco is famous for its beautiful setting, San Francisco is built on a series of steep hills located on the northern tip of a peninsula at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. The bay and its extensions, which include San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay, constitute one of the great natural harbors of the world, embracing more than 450 sq mi of water. Because of this, San Francisco was once the major Pacific Coast seaport of the United States. Today the city is an important center for finance, technology, tourism, and culture.

San Jose click here

San Jose is located 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 San Jose metropolitan area is an economic powerhouse. It is the single most important high-technology center in the United States, specializing in aerospace and computer technology.

San Marcos

Bob Crain

San Marcos Real Estate

Santa Ana click here

Santa Ana is located in the southern portion of a vast metropolitan region centered around Los Angeles. Santa Ana is a hub for commercial, financial, and governmental activity. The retail, manufacturing, and professional services sectors are important to the economy.

Santa Barbara

Dan Beightol

Santa Barbara Real Estate

Stan Tabler
Coldwell Banker
Phone: 805-563-7261

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Scripps Ranch

Bob Wilson

Scripps Ranch Real Estate

Sherman Oaks

Bryan Ridgley, GRI, CRS, SRES, e-PRO, RECS
The OracleGroup, Keller Williams Realty
Phone: 818-788-7800

Serving Los Angeles, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Hollywood Hills, Encino, Burbank, Toluca Lake, Valley Village, and the San Fernando Valley.

David Hitt
Coldwell Banker
Phone: 818-422-1702

Encino Real Estate
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South Pasadena

Raphael Guerin

South Pasadena Real Estate

Stockton click here

Stockton is located in central California, a deepwater port at the head of navigation on the San Joaquin River. It is an important warehousing, distribution, and processing center for the fertile San Joaquin Valley. Agriculture is the city’s primary industry.

Studio City

Heather Farquhar

Studio City Real Estate

Temecula

Jan Margiotta

Thousand Oaks

Wendy Pickard

Toluca Lake

Judy Graff

Toluca Lake Real Estate

Valley Village

Ventura

Michael Dimauro

Ventura Real Estate

Visalia

Robert Cortez
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Phone: 559-786-2974

Visalia Real Estate
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Whittier

Chuck Allen

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Yorba Linda

Jeff Brang

More about California

California’s farms are among the most productive in the world. For example, the state’s highly automated rice industry generates a yield three times greater than the labor-intensive rice paddies of Asia. The high production is based in large part on the fertile soils and long growing season of the region, the widespread practice of advanced farming techniques, and the availability of water. Most of the farmlands lie in the dry Central Valley and southern areas of the state, where farmers are dependent on irrigation projects, such as the Central Valley Project, for water. With the exception of only a few commodities, such as barley, most of the state’s numerous crops are grown on irrigated lands. Livestock ranching is the main activity on the nonirrigated farmlands. However, livestock are also frequently raised on irrigated pastures. California leads all other states in the total amount of land irrigated. Although many crops are grown in each of the farming areas of the state, within each area the individual farms tend to specialize in certain products.

A great variety of crops, especially fruits and vegetables, are grown in California. The state accounts for nearly the entire U.S. production of walnuts, almonds, nectarines, olives, dates, figs, pomegranates, and persimmons. It leads the nation in the production of vegetables, including lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli, celery, cauliflower, carrots, lima beans, and spinach, and also of apricots, grapes, lemons, strawberries, plums and prunes, peaches, cantaloupes, avocados, and honeydew melons. It is the nation’s leading producer of hay and the second leading producer of cotton. California is also the second ranking state in the production of rice, oranges, tangerines, grapefruit, apples, pears, sweet corn, and asparagus. Nearly every crop grown in the United States is represented in California fields.

California leads the nation in egg and milk production and ranks high in the marketing of cattle and calves, chickens, turkeys, and sheep and lambs. Beef cattle and sheep are raised primarily in the hillier parts of the Central Valley and the adjacent foothills. In addition, cattle ranching is the most important activity in some of the dry, sparsely populated basins east of the Sierra Nevada. Dairy cattle and poultry are raised in the Central Valley and near the major urban centers.

Among the most important commercial fish caught in Californian waters are species of tuna, salmon, halibut, mackerel, and anchovy. Shellfish taken in coastal waters include crab, shrimp, and abalone.

California usually ranks third among the states, after Oregon and Washington, in output of timber and lumber. Lumbering is the chief economic activity in the Sierra Nevada and in northwestern California. Redwood and Douglas fir are the most important commercial species in the northwest. Ponderosa or yellow pine is the principal commercial species in the Sierra Nevada. About two-fifths of the forestland is classified as commercial forest; more than half of the commercial forest is managed by the United States Forest Service.

Crude oil and natural gas account for two-thirds of the value of California’s mineral production. California ranks third in the nation in the production of oil, behind Texas and Louisiana. The oil fields of Kern County and the Los Angeles area are the most important. Oil is also produced in offshore waters. Natural gas wells are found in the Sacramento Valley and in all the oil-producing areas. Yet reserves of natural gas are seriously depleted, so much so that the state imports most of the natural gas it consumes each year. The bulk of natural gas piped into California originates in the province of Alberta, Canada, and the states of New Mexico and Texas.

California leads all other states in the production of sand and gravel for construction, Portland cement, diatomite, asbestos, and sodium sulfate. In addition, much of the world’s supply of boron minerals comes from Searles Lake and other areas in California’s Mojave Desert. The state is also the nation’s second largest producer of feldspar, soda ash, titanium, and magnesium compounds, and the third largest producer of gold, perlite, and pumice. Other minerals found in California include stone, lime, clays, gypsum, talc, silver, gemstones, salt, copper, molybdenum, peat, and various high grade iron ores. In spite of the great variety of minerals found in the state, large quantities must be imported to meet the needs of California, which is the nation’s leading consumer of minerals.

California’s leading industry, in terms of the value added by manufacturing, is electronic and electrical equipment manufacturing. Value added by manufacturing is the difference between the price of raw materials used in a product and the price it commands as a finished item. The largest employers were firms making semiconductors, radios and televisions, printed circuit boards, and telephones, although the diverse industrial sector contained manufactures ranging from the makers of electron tubes to household lighting fixtures.

Ranking high in California’s economy is the manufacture of industrial machinery, principally computers and related equipment but including the making of pumps, engines, turbines, and machines for the service industry. Many computer companies are located in what is known as Silicon Valley, in the San Jose-Palo Alto area. Food processing, which includes the drying, freezing, and packaging of fruit, vegetables, fish, and livestock products, is another of the state’s biggest industries. Included in this sector is the California wine industry, which accounts for four-fifths of the nation’s annual wine production. The manufacture of instruments contributes significantly to California’s industrial economy, led by firms making such things as surgical and medical instruments, appliances, and supplies, while also including those making electric meters, analytical tools used in research and by other industries, and photographic equipment.

Manufacturing is concentrated in southern California and around San Francisco Bay. The aircraft industry is centered in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas and is based in large part on federal military expenditures. Automobile assembly plants are located near Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, and in Fremont. There are shipbuilding yards at San Diego. In Sacramento, Stockton, Fresno, Bakersfield, and other Central Valley cities, foodstuffs are manufactured. In the San Francisco area, manufacturing is highly diversified and includes food processing, automobile assembly, shipbuilding, chemical production, printing and publishing, and the manufacture of machinery. The computer and electronics industry is centered in Silicon Valley, which is lesser known as, but officially, the Santa Clara Valley.

Hydroelectric facilities provided 22 percent of the electricity generated in California in 1999. Thermal power plants burning fossil fuels provided another 48 percent, while 18 percent of California’s electricity generation comes from four nuclear reactors, two at Diablo Canyon west of San Luis Obispo and two at San Onofre southeast of San Clemente. The city of Los Angeles imports power from a nuclear plant at Palo Verde in Arizona. Southern California also imports electricity generated at coal-fired thermal plants in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. Renewable energy sources such as wind-power generators and geothermal power plants, which use heat from the Earth to make steam, accounted for 12 percent of electricity production in 1999.

Southern California, with its year-round sunshine, variety of landscape, and excellent technical facilities, has dominated the U.S. motion-picture industry since the 1920s. The name Hollywood has long been synonymous with the world of motion pictures. Since the late 1940s the Los Angeles area has also become a major center of the U.S. television industry.

California plays host to millions of visitors each year, and many Californians are employed in providing for these tourists. Tourists are drawn to the state’s magnificent scenery and recreational facilities and to such cities as Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco, which are also popular convention centers. Visitors to California spend $50 billion on lodgings, rental cars, and other traveling needs each year, by far the largest sum for any state.

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