Introduction
The valley was named during the late 18th-century Spanish colonial Alta California period, and in Spanish salina is the term for a salt marsh, salt lake, or salt pan. The seasonal Salinas River had brackish tule ponds in broad depressed areas, and more salinity during summer and drought lowered flows.
The valley is located (south to north) in portions of the Northern California counties of: Monterey, Kings, and San Benito.
The valley runs in a southeast to northwest alignment. It begins south of San Ardo, framed by the central inner California Coast Ranges, continues northwestward continuously defined on the west by the Santa Lucia Range, to its end and the river's mouth at the Monterey Bay.
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