Cerrito Creek
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| Cerrito Creek | |
| stream | |
| Name origin: Spanish | |
| Country | United States |
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| State | California |
| Regions | Contra Costa County, Alameda County |
| Cities | Albany, El Cerrito, Berkeley, Kensington, Richmond |
| Source | Berkeley Hills |
| - location | above Arlington Avenue, Berkeley |
| - elevation | 500 ft (152 m) |
| - coordinates | [1] |
| Mouth | San Francisco Bay |
| - elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
| - coordinates | [1] |
| Length | 2 mi (3 km) [1] |
Cerrito Creek is one of the principal watercourses running out of the Berkeley Hills into San Francisco Bay in northern California. It is significant for its use as a boundary demarcation historically, as well as presently. In the early 19th century, it defined the northern boundary of the vast Rancho San Antonio. Today, it defines part of the boundary between Alameda County and Contra Costa County.
The creek is named for Albany Hill, formerly called Cerrito de San Antonio, a small though prominent hill which lies directly on the shoreline of San Francisco Bay in Albany. The creek's outlet into the bay lies at the foot of the northern slope of the hill and discharges into the Albany Mudflats.
A significant portion of Cerrito Creek has recently been "daylighted", that is, the culvert in which it was enclosed has been removed in several portions in the flatlands, especially adjacent to the El Cerrito Plaza shopping center. Native vegetation including native grasses, wildflowers and Arroyo willows have been replanted. Further upstream, east of Colusa Avenue, the creek forms a small canyon separating Kensington and Berkeley.
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- Baxter Creek
- Codornices Creek
- Fluvius Innominatus (Central Creek)
- List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area
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