Outdoors: Santa Cruz Mountains (a ridge along the San Francisco Peninsula, separating the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco Bay and the Santa Clara Valley), Los Gatos Creek Trail (pedestrian and bicycle trail), Guadalupe River Trail (pedestrian and bicycle path along the banks of the Guadalupe River) Parks: San Jose Municipal Rose Garden (rose garden), Kelley Park (with a Japanese Friendship Garden, a History Park, picnic areas, lawns, and trees), Happy Hollow Park & Zoo (small zoo and amusement park), Alum Rock Park (urban park and the first municipal park in California), Plaza de César Chávez (downtown park) Joseph (minor basilica, built between 18),
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Shopping: San Jose Flea Market (flea market with an admission fee and free parking), Westfield Valley Fair (upscale indoor shopping mall), Santana Row (outdoor shopping mall)Ĭhurches: Cathedral Basilica of St. Performing Arts: San Jose Center for the Performing Arts (performing arts center)Ĭonvention Center: San Jose Convention Center (events and meetings, annual FanimeCon, the four-day anime convention is held here since 2004) Museums: Tech Museum of Innovation ( The Tech is a museum dedicated to Communication, Exploration, Innovation and Life Tech, with interactive displays and an IMAX cinema), San Jose Museum of Art (small art museum with Chihuly sculptures), Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (theosophical museum founded by the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis with emphasis on Ancient Egypt), Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose (one of the top 10 children’s museums in the United States), NASA Ames Exploration Center (science museum/visitor center with a mock-up of a space station) Places: Downtown San Jose (the central business district of San Jose and the recreated heart of the city), Winchester Mystery House (San Jose landmark, once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, mansion with a staircase leading nowhere and other odd features designed to confuse ghosts.) 1.9 million people live in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area. San Jose has a population of a little more than 1 million (2015). Today the "Capital of Silicon Valley" is the home turf of many brand names in the field of computer based high-tech innovation like Apple, in Cupertino, Google, east of Moffett Field in Mountain View, Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems, eBay, PayPal, Yahoo! and Facebook, to name just a few. In the 1950s the company developed the RAMAC, the first commercial computer that used a moving-head hard disk drive for data storage. In 1943 IBM established its West Coast headquarters in San Jose and created a research and development facility some years later.
In the beginning of the 20th century the city became a center for invention in mechanization and industrialization, especially in the area related to agricultural product preservation and food processing (for some time Del Monte cannery was the largest employer). In 1846 California was annexed and became part of the United States.įour years later in 1850, San Jose became the second incorporated town in California (after Sacramento). In 1821 San Jose came under Mexican rule when the former colony broke with the Spanish crown and established the short-lived Mexican Empire. Before the establishment of the town, there were only some Spanish Franciscan religious outposts in the region, established to evangelize the local natives. San Jose was founded in 1777 as a farming community named San José de Guadalupe. San Jose lies about 55 mi (89 km) south of San Francisco, located along the Coyote and Guadalupe rivers at the southern end of San Francisco Bay in the Santa Clara Valley (also known as Silicon Valley).Ĭircle of Palms Plaza in downtown San Jose, the site of California's first state capital from 1849-1851, today the location of the Fairmont San Jose Hotel, the Knight-Ridder building (Silicon Valley Financial Center) and the San Jose Museum of Art. San Jose, Santa Clara Valley, California, at night.Ībout San Jose Satellite view showing San Jose, third most populous city in the State of California, and the tenth largest city in the United States. _ Searchable Map and Satellite View of the City of San Jose, California (45-degree view available) Home Earth Continents The Americas USA Country Profile California Google Earth San Jose Map
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