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- This article is about a creek in Santa Clara County, Ca. For the creek in Ventura County, see Coyote Creek (Ventura County).
Coyote Creek is a river that flows through the Santa Clara Valley in California (United States). Although it is called a "creek", Coyote Creek is actually a large river comparable in size to the Guadalupe River. The river's main source is in Henry W. Coe State Park and the surrounding hills. Thence it flows into Coyote Reservoir and further to Anderson Reservoir; flow continues from Morgan Hill through Coyote into San Jose. As Coyote Creek forms the eastern boundary of downtown San Jose, it winds its way into North San Jose. There, Miguelita Creek, Penitencia Creek, and Berryessa Creek dump into the river. Coyote Creek then bypasses the Newby Island landfill and dumps into the San Francisco Bay. There is a chain of parks along Coyote Creek called the Coyote Creek Park Chain. The feasibility of a trail connecting the parks within this chain to Almaden Park was first examined in 1989[1] The river is managed by the Santa Clara Valley Water District. In 1983, torrential rains caused by el Niño resulted in significant flooding of Coyote Creek in the Alviso neighborhood. The Silver Creek Fault runs generally parallel to Coyote Creek.
References
- ^ Feasibility Study for providing a trail between Alamden Park and the Coyote Creek Park Chain, Earth Metrics Incorporated, prepared for Parks and Recreation Department, City of San Jose, California, July, 1989
