CALIFORNIACalifornia
The Golden State. One state, one story: land, people, food, and the words locals really use.The Golden State. Un estado, una historia: tierra, gente, comida y las palabras que la gente de ahí sí usa.
Say the state name, the capital, and the nickname out loud. Then tap Next.Di el nombre del estado, la capital y el apodo en voz alta. Luego toca Next.
Where is California?¿Dónde está California?
The far west of the Lower 48. The Pacific is the west wall. Mexico is the south wall.California está en Estados Unidos. Estos son los vecinos que hay que memorizar.
Sacramento, the capitalSacramento, la capital
1 · About 525,000 people
City proper (2020: 524,943). Metro is larger. Not the biggest city in the state.Dato clave de Sacramento.
2 · Why not San Francisco?
Floods, fires, and gold-camp politics moved the capital inland. Sacramento won for good in 1854.Dato clave de Sacramento.
3 · Farm and law
The valley feeds the country. The capitol dome is a classroom for water law.Dato clave de Sacramento.
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Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California. The county seat of Sacramento County, it is located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in the Sacramento Valley. It is the fourth-most populous city in Northern California, sixth-most populous city in the state, and 35th-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 524,943 at the 2020 census. The Sacramento metropolitan area, with 2.46 million residents, is the 27th-largest metropolitan area in the country. Before the arrival of the Spanish, the area was inhabited by the Nisenan, Maidu, and other indigenous peoples of California.
Sacramento es la capital del estado estadounidense de California y del Condado de Sacramento. Está situada a 120 km al noreste de San Francisco. Según la Oficina del Censo, en 2000 tenía una población de 486 189 personas y una densidad poblacional de 1818 personas por km². La ciudad es la sexta más poblada de California, y el área metropolitana es la cuarta más poblada del estado. Se encuentra sobre la orilla izquierda del curso bajo del río homónimo. Fue fundada en diciembre de 1848 por John Sutter, un inmigrante suizo. Sacramento recibe varios sobrenombres como Ciudad Capital, Ciudad Río o la Ciudad de los Árboles.Land: sierra, valley, faultLand: sierra, valley, fault
Sierra Nevada
A granite wall. Yosemite. Sequoias. Whitney is the high point of the Lower 48.Dato clave de la tierra de California.
Central Valley
450 miles (725 km) of farm trough. Almonds, rice, milk, tomatoes.Dato clave de la tierra de California.
San Andreas
A transform fault. Plates slide. The next big one is a when, not an if.Dato clave de la tierra de California.
Person 1 · Cesar ChavezPerson 1 · Cesar Chavez
1 · Fields
Born 1927 near Yuma, raised in California camps. He knew the short hoe and the short pay.Dato clave de Cesar Chavez.
2 · The union
With Dolores Huerta he built the UFW. Grapes, lettuce, a boycott that reached kitchen tables.Dato clave de Cesar Chavez.
3 · Sí se puede
Fasting, marching, nonviolence. His birthday is a state holiday.Dato clave de Cesar Chavez.
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Cesario Estrada "Cesar" Chavez was an American labor unionist and political activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Ideologically, his worldview combined leftist approaches with Catholic social teaching. Born in Yuma, Arizona, to a Mexican American family, Chavez began his working life as a manual laborer before spending two years in the US Navy.
Cesario Estrada "César" Chávez (Yuma, Arizona, 31 de marzo de 1927 - San Luis, Arizona, 23 de abril de 1993) fue un líder campesino y activista de los derechos civiles estadounidense quien, junto a Dolores Huerta, fundó la Asociación Nacional de Campesinos en 1962, que después fue reconocido como el sindicato Unión de Campesinos. Como trabajador del campo estadounidense de origen mexicano, Chávez se convirtió en el más reconocido activista de los derechos civiles, y fue fuertemente promocionado por el movimiento sindical estadounidense, que buscaba inscribir a miembros hispanos.Golden Gate BridgeGolden Gate Bridge
- The Golden Gate Bridge (1937) is painted international orange so ships can see it in San Francisco's famous fog.El puente Golden Gate (1937) está pintado de naranja internacional para que los barcos lo vean en la famosa niebla de San Francisco.
- Say it in one line: Golden Gate Bridge is in California. Then say why people go there.Dilo en una línea: Golden Gate Bridge está en California. Luego di por qué va la gente ahí.
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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean in California, United States. The structure links San Francisco-the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula-to Marin County, carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. It also carries pedestrian and bicycle traffic, and is designated as part of U.S. Bicycle Route 95. Recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Wonders of the Modern World, the bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco and California.
El puente Golden Gate (en español: Puente de puerta de oro) es un puente colgante situado en California, Estados Unidos, que une la península de San Francisco por el norte con el sur del condado de Marin, cerca de Sausalito. Golden Gate es también el nombre del estrecho en el cual el puente está construido, y recibe su nombre del estrecho en Constantinopla, llamado también la Puerta Dorada, ya que comunicaba Europa con Asia. El Golden Gate es el puente más famoso de San Francisco a pesar de no ser el mayor en esta ciudad, ya que el puente de la Bahía es la vía principal.The flagLa bandera
1846
American settlers in Sonoma raised a homemade “Bear Flag” for a short republic.Dato clave de la bandera de California.
The animal
A California grizzly. The last wild one in the state was killed in 1922. The bear remains on the cloth.Dato clave de la bandera de California.
The line
“California Republic” stays under the bear. One red star. A red stripe at the bottom.Dato clave de la bandera de California.
Food: three dishesComida: tres platos
Mission burrito
San Francisco: rice, beans, meat, salsa, foil. A full meal in a wrap.Un plato para probar en California. Di el nombre en voz alta: Mission burrito. ¿Lo probarías?
Sourdough
Bay fog feeds a wild yeast. A loaf with a sour bite, born in Gold Rush ovens.Un plato para probar en California. Di el nombre en voz alta: Sourdough. ¿Lo probarías?
In-N-Out / taco trucks
Drive-through burgers and night tacos. Both are local languages of hunger.Un plato para probar en California. Di el nombre en voz alta: In-N-Out / taco trucks. ¿Lo probarías?
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A Mission burrito (also known as a San Francisco burrito or a Mission-style burrito) is a type of burrito that first became popular during the 1960s in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. It is distinguished from other burritos by its large size and inclusion of rice and other ingredients. A key method to the burrito's construction is to steam the wheat flour tortilla to increase its flexibility prior to adding the other ingredients, although that is not a requirement and burritos may be grilled instead.
La comida típica de California mezcla su historia y su campo. Di qué plato probarías primero.Dolores HuertaDolores Huerta
- With Cesar Chavez she co-founded the farm workers union. The words Sí se puede are hers.Con César Chávez cofundó el sindicato de campesinos. Las palabras Sí se puede son de ella.
- Say it in one line: Dolores Huerta is from California. Then say what they are famous for.Dilo en una línea: Dolores Huerta es de California. Luego di por qué es famoso o famosa.
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Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta joined Filipino leader Larry Itliong in the Delano grape strike in 1965, managing boycott campaigns on the east coast and negotiating with the grape companies to end the strike.
Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta (Dawson, Nuevo México; 10 de abril de 1930) es una sindicalista estadounidense, cofundadora y primera vicepresidente emérita del Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas de América, AFL-CIO (UFW).The bridge that should not have workedThe bridge that should not have worked
1 · 1933-37
Joseph Strauss, Irving Morrow, and engineer Charles Ellis. Art Deco orange (International Orange).Dato clave de The bridge that should not have worked.
2 · Fog and wind
The Gate is a wind tunnel. Workers built a safety net. Nineteen men fell in and lived. They were the Halfway to Hell Club.Dato clave de The bridge that should not have worked.
3 · Still the postcard
Tolls, bikes, a moving deck. The color is not gold. The name is the strait, not the paint.Dato clave de The bridge that should not have worked.
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Mount Whitney is a mountain in California's Sierra Nevada range, and is the highest point in the contiguous United States, with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). It is located in East-Central California along the border of Inyo and Tulare counties. The mountain's west slope is in Sequoia National Park and the summit is the southern terminus of the John Muir Trail, which runs 211.9 mi (341.0 km) from Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley. The eastern slopes are in Inyo National Forest in Inyo County. Mount Whitney is ranked 18th by topographic isolation and 81st by prominence on Earth. It is the tallest mountain in the United States outside of Alaska.
El punto más alto de California es Whitney 14,505 ft (4,421 m). Compara su altura con un edificio o cerro que conoces.