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On the West Coast
In California
Latitude- 37° 47'
Longitude- 122° 26‘
• San Francisco Bay
• Mountains
• Hills
 Average
Daily TemperatureJanuary,51.1°; July 59.1°
 Latitude- 37° 47‘
 Altitude- Highest, 925ft; Lowest,
sea level
 Distance from Large Bodies of
Water-between the Pacific Ocean
and the San Francisco Bay
 Ocean Currents- California Current
 Prevailing
Winds-from the West
 Presence of a Mountain-mountains
North and South and small
mountains to the East
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In 2000-776,733
2005 Estimate-739,426
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A Franciscan father was sailing with Sebastián Rodríguez Cermeño
named a bay San Francisco on November 7, 1595. the Spanish
established a military post and an Franciscan mission on the end of the
beautiful peninsula. A little town was founded around the mission. The
town was taken over by the United States. It was renamed San
Francisco in 1847 and became a city in 1850.
When gold was discovered in California in 1848, the city's population
jumped to 10,000.
San Francisco experienced the nation's most destructive earthquake in
1906, and fire followed, almost destroying the entire city! San
Francisco was then rebuilt and grew quickly as a leading center for
transportation, industry, and culture.
The American explorer and soldier John C. Frémont, named the
entrance to San Francisco Bay the Golden Gate, and the famous
Golden Gate Bridge was dedicated in May 1937.
• The Embarcadero, with docks, ships, and the restored
Ferry Building
• Fisherman's Wharf, with seafood restaurants and the
center of the city’s seafood industry
• China Town, with Asian architecture, tearooms, temples,
and one of the largest communities of Chinese in the
U.S.
• Telegraph Hill, Russian Hill, and Nob Hill, the home of
millionaires
• Mission Dolores, and many old mansions built by railroad
and mining kings
• The Civic Center, with a Renaissance-style city hall, a
modern public library completed in 1996, and the
municipally owned opera house
• The Presidio, formerly the largest military encampment
in an American city, it is now part of the national park
system, and was headquarters of the Sixth Army and is
the site of a national cemetery
• Fourth largest city in California
• It has almost 30% of the
worldwide biotechnology
workforce and 360 biotech firms