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San Jose is a city at the southern end of San Francisco Bay
in Santa Clara County, California. One of the largest cities in population
in the United States, San Jose lays claim to being the capital of Silicon
Valley, a nickname for a swath of communities engaged in high-technology
research and manufacturing.
The city is in the Santa Clara Valley, with the Santa
Cruz Mountains to the west and the Diablo Range to the east. The center of
the city is about 11 miles from the marshy shore of San Francisco Bay. San
Jose enjoys a mild climate year round, with an average of 300 sunny days per
year. Annual precipitation averages 380 mm 15 inches), with most of it
falling from November through March. In January the average high temperature
is 58° F and the average low 41° F; in July the temperature averages a high
of 282° F and a low of 57° F.
San Jose was founded along the banks of the Guadalupe
River in 1777 as the first civil settlement in Spanish California. The
settlement was called El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, named for Saint
Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary.
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