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Sacramento (Spanish for ''sacrament'') (/ ˌ s æ k r ə ˈ m ɛ n t oʊ / SAK-rə-MEN-toh; Spanish: [sakɾaˈmento]) is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of government of Sacramento County.
Major features. Included within downtown is the California State Capitol building, the house of the California state government.The major retail and entertainment area is known as the Downtown Commons (DOCO), which includes Macy's, the Sawyer Hotel, the Golden 1 Center (home of the Sacramento Kings NBA team), and a wide variety of dining establishments and retail shops.
Old Sacramento State Historic Park. / 38.58278°N 121.50333°W / 38.58278; -121.50333. Old Sacramento State Historic Park occupies around one third of the property within the Old Sacramento Historic District of Sacramento, California. The Old Sacramento Historic District is a U.S. National Historic Landmark District.
The history of Sacramento, California, began with its founding by Samuel Brannan and John Augustus Sutter, Jr. in 1848 around an embarcadero that his father, John Sutter, Sr. constructed at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers a few years prior. Sacramento was named after the Sacramento River, which forms its western border.
95833/95834/95835. Area code (s) 916, 279. Natomas is a community in the northwestern section of the city of Sacramento, in the U.S. state of California . Natomas is generally divided into two areas by Interstate 80: North Natomas and South Natomas. North Natomas was historically an agricultural area on the floodplains of the Sacramento River ...
Sacramento History Museum. / 38.58486; -121.50499. The Sacramento History Museum is a historical museum in Sacramento, California, which interprets the history of Sacramento and the California Gold Rush. The museum is located within the Old Sacramento State Historic Park, situated along the Sacramento River between the Tower Bridge and I Street ...
Position in California. / 38.17194°N 121.28028°W / 38.17194; -121.28028. Acampo ( Spanish for "Pasture") is a small census-designated place (CDP) just north of Lodi in San Joaquin County, California, United States. In the 1870s, Acampo was named as a Southern Pacific Railroad station. [4] Acampo's population was 341 at the 2010 census.
The Greater Sacramento area refers to a metropolitan region in Northern California comprising either the U.S. Census Bureau defined Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade metropolitan statistical area or the larger Sacramento–Roseville combined statistical area, the latter of which consists of seven counties, namely Sacramento, Yolo, Placer, El Dorado, Sutter, Yuba, and Nevada counties.