Click on maps for larger versions . The months of May through September tend to be almost completely dry. "[59][60] That river was the San Diego River.
Older and denser neighborhoods around the downtown tend to be oriented to utility cycling. There are two Amtrak stations in San Diego, in Old Town and the Santa Fe Depot downtown. This was 0.974% of total US population and 7.9% of total California state population.
• Kern County However, in more recent decades, San Diego has trended in favor of Democratic presidential candidates for president.
The other three occasions, in 1882, 1946, and 1987, involved flurries but no accumulation. The presence of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), with the affiliated UCSD Medical Center, has helped make the area a center of research in biotechnology. [38] During the 1950s there was a citywide festival called Fiesta del Pacifico highlighting the area's Spanish and Mexican past. In the California State Senate, San Diego County encompasses the 38th, 39th and 40th districts,[171] represented by Brian Jones (R), Toni Atkins (D), and Ben Hueso (D), respectively. Michael Allaby, Martyn Bramwell, Jamie Stokes, eds.
(Visit https://egis3.lacounty.gov/dataportal/2013/10/30/dcfs-office-service-areas-by-zip-codes/ for GIS data downloads.) The city has a mild climate year-round,[77] with an average of 201 days above 70 °F (21 °C) and low rainfall (9–13 inches [230–330 mm] annually). The San Diego metropolitan area had one of the worst housing affordability rankings of all metropolitan areas in the United States in 2009. During the historic period and presumably earlier as well, the river has shifted its flow back and forth between San Diego Bay and Mission Bay, and its fresh water was the focus of the earliest Spanish explorers. [109] The San Diego County regional planning agency, SANDAG, provides tables and graphs breaking down the city population into five-year age groups.
Visualising Population Density Across the Globe This exploratory map shows data from the fantastic Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) produced by the European Commission. Programs: The In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS), Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI), Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA), California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs), General Relief (GR), California's Food Stamp Program (CalFresh). [241], In 2014, San Diego announced plans to become the first U.S. city to install cyber-controlled street lighting, using an "intelligent" lighting system to control 3,000 LED street lights.[242]. Bush in 1988 is the last Republican candidate to carry San Diego in a presidential election. [1890-1900] +0.03 %/yr
[155] Major biotechnology companies like Illumina and Neurocrine Biosciences are headquartered in San Diego, while many other biotech and pharmaceutical companies have offices or research facilities in San Diego. [citation needed], Like much of southern California, the majority of San Diego's current area was originally occupied on the west by coastal sage scrub and on the east by chaparral, plant communities made up mostly of drought-resistant shrubs.
The location was not ideal, being several miles away from navigable water at its port at La Playa. Source: State of California, Employment Development Department, Labor Market Information Division data. To build your own apps using this data, see the ODN Dataset and API links.3. Mexican partisans held San Diego for three weeks until October 24, 1846, when the Americans recaptured it.
The wettest month on record is December 1921 with 9.21 inches (234 mm).
[195] He was released in 2013.
Both expositions were held in Balboa Park, and many of the Spanish/Baroque-style buildings that were built for those expositions remain to this day as central features of the park. [210] In 2013, San Diego had the lowest murder rate of the ten largest cities in the United States. In October 2003, San Diego was the site of the Cedar Fire, at that time the largest wildfire in California over the past century.
where REGIONX is an HREF with a name for a geographical region like "Seattle, WA" and the link points to this page URL, e.g. [252] It is located on San Diego Bay, three miles (4.8 km) from downtown, and maintains scheduled flights to the rest of the United States (including Hawaii), as well as to Canada, Germany, Mexico, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
Sailing his flagship San Salvador from Navidad, New Spain, Cabrillo claimed the bay for the Spanish Empire in 1542, and named the site "San Miguel".