Which mountain has the highest steep?

California's Central Valley is a large, flat

valley that dominates the central portion of California. It is 40

to 60 miles (60 to 100 km) wide and stretches approximately 450

miles (720 km) from northwest to southeast, inland from and

parallel to the Pacific Ocean coast. It covers approximately 22,500

square miles (58,000 km2), about 13.7% of California's total land

area (slightly smaller than the state of West Virginia), and is

home to some of California's most productive agricultural

areas.

The Central Valley comprises multiple major

watershed systems: the Sacramento Valley, which receives well over

20 inches (510 mm) of rain annually, in the north, and the drier

San Joaquin Valley in the south, with the Tulare Basin and its

semi-arid desert climate at the southernmost end. The Sacramento

and San Joaquin river systems drain their respective valleys and

meet to form the delta, a large expanse of interconnected canals,

stream beds, sloughs, marshes and peat islands, ultimately flowing

to the Pacific by way of San Francisco Bay.[1] The waters of the

Tulare Basin essentially never flow to the ocean, though they are

connected by man-made canals to the San Joaquin and could drain

there again naturally if they were ever to rise high enough.