Portal:San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area Portal  The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries (collectively, the San Francisco Bay) in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas. The nine counties are Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. Home to approximately 7.15 million people, the nine-county Bay Area contains many cities, towns, airports, and associated regional, state, and national parks, connected by a network of roads, highways, railroads, bridges, tunnels and commuter rail. The combined urban area of San Jose and San Francisco is the 53rd largest urban area in the world. The Bay Area is anchored by three major cities. San Francisco is world renowned for its storied history, steep hills, cable cars, and the Golden Gate Bridge. It is the second-most densely populated major city (population greater than 200,000) in the United States. The largest city in the Bay Area in land area and population is San Jose, which is located in the South Bay and is part of the high technology hub known as Silicon Valley. Oakland, the third most populous city, is the main city of the East Bay, and contains the Port of Oakland, the fifth busiest intermodal container port in the United States, and an anchor point for the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge. The region's northern counties encompass California's famous Wine Country. The Bay Area is renowned for its natural beauty, liberal politics, entrepreneurship, and diversity. The area includes the five highest California counties by per capita income and two of the top 25 wealthiest counties in the United States. (more...)San Francisco Bay Area categoriesSelected article The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. It rose to international popularity, fueled by unprecedented sales of 33⅓ rpm long-playing record albums (LPs), and helped to alter the direction of popular music in the U.S. The Kingston Trio was one of the most prominent groups of the era's pop-folk boom that started in 1958 with the release of their first album and its hit recording of "Tom Dooley", which sold over three million copies as a single. The Trio released nineteen albums that made Billboard's Top 100, fourteen of which ranked in the top 10, and five of which hit the number 1 spot. Four of the group's LPs charted among the Top 10 selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959, a record unmatched for more than 50 years, and the group still ranks after half a century in the all-time lists of many of Billboard's cumulative charts, including those for most weeks with a number 1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most number 1 albums, most consecutive number 1 albums, and most top ten albums. (more...) Previously: Phoenix (fireboat), Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary Selected biography
Selected picture 1915 painting by Edwin Deakin, from the collection of the Crocker Art Museum Did you know... ...that the Tom Lantos Tunnels are two tunnels located within the coastal promontory of Devil's Slide in California, United States, allowing State Route 1 to bypass the treacherous Devil's Slide stretch. They are named after late Congressman Tom Lantos, who was instrumental in securing funding for the project. (more...)  ...that Twomey Cellars is a California winery that was established in 1999 by the Duncan Family, who have operated the successful Silver Oak Cellars in California since 1972. (more...)  ...that Live at Keystone is an album by Merl Saunders, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, and Bill Vitt. It was recorded live at the Keystone in Berkeley, California on July 10 and 11, 1973, and released later that year as a two-disc vinyl LP. (more...)  ...that James L. Patton is an American evolutionary biologist and mammalogist. He is emeritus professor of integrative biology and curator of mammals at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley and has made extensive contributions to the systematics and biogeography of several vertebrate taxa, especially small mammals (rodents, marsupials, and bats). (more...) Selected quote
San Francisco Bay Area regions and locales
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Golden Gate National Recreation Area 
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary 
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