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Goat Canyon Trestle is a wooden trestle in San Diego County, California. [1] At a length of 597–750 feet (182–229 m), it is the world's largest all-wood trestle. [1] [8] [10] [11] Goat Canyon Trestle was built in 1933 as part of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway, after one of the many tunnels through the Carrizo Gorge collapsed.
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is a scientific research institute in the La Jolla community of San Diego, California. [ 1] The independent, non-profit institute was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, the developer of the polio vaccine; among the founding consultants were Jacob Bronowski and Francis Crick.
32°43′57″N 116°11′23″W. / 32.73250°N 116.18972°W / 32.73250; -116.18972. [ 1] Goat Canyon is a valley in San Diego County, California, United States, located within the Carrizo Gorge in the Jacumba Mountains. [ 2][ 1] The rock forming the canyon is crystalline basement. [ 3] One feature of the canyon is a dry waterfall. [ 4]
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Scripps Research is a nonprofit American medical research facility that focuses on research and education in the biomedical sciences. Headquartered in San Diego, California, the institute has over 170 laboratories employing 2,100 scientists, [ 1] technicians, graduate students, and administrative and other staff.
Hundreds of San Diego homes and businesses were damaged or ruined in devastating floods after punishing rainfall fell Monday during a 'thousand-year storm.'
Coordinates: 41°31′59″N 71°18′32″W. Postcard aerial view of Goat Island. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center ( NUWC) is the United States Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapons systems ...
[15] [24] Within the canyon there is a San Dieguito-era quarry. [25] In 1769, the Portolá expedition's overland group, with which Junípero Serra was traveling, traversed Goat Canyon on their way to San Diego Bay. [13] In the 1770s, Spaniards recorded that a Native American village, which they named "Milejo", was located at the mouth of the ...