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California's Central Valley is a large, flat valley that dominates the geographical center of the U.S. state of California. It is 40 to 60 miles (60 to 100 km) wide and stretches approximately 450 miles (720 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific Ocean coast.
Silicon Valley is not a perfectly defined area, but the heart of it is Santa Clara County or Santa Clara Valley, which was once known as âThe Valley of Heartâs Delightâ. Silicon Valley also overlaps a little into the adjoining counties of the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area . Most of Silicon Valley is about an hour south of San Francisco and about a half a hour from the beach at Santa Cruz. (Click here to view Google map.) Most of it is in ânorthern Californiaâ, but Scotts Valley, just over the hill from Los Gatos in Santa Cruz County, is considered to be the central coast area of California.