Archive for June 24th, 2009

An introduction to the city of San Francisco

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

The city of San Francisco is the 14th most populous American city founded in 1776 with a population of 744,500, which is the density of population in cities of the States — USA’ The city of most of the Bay of San Francisco has nearly 7′3 million people, with diverse and cosmopolitan population’ San Francisco is located at the tip of the peninsula with the Pacific Ocean to the west, the San Francisco Bay to the east and the Golden Gate to the north’ Today the city is considered one of the most popular destination for tourists, and many well known places to visit, such as the Golden Gate Bridge, Cable Cars, Alcatraz Island, Chinatown and Coit Tower’

Based on archaeological evidence, the San Francisco area was inhabited around 3000BC’ The group Yelamu of the Ohlone people lived in small villages, when the Spaniards arrived in the exploration in November 1769′ A great history of the town is an earthquake in San Francisco on April 18, 1906 at 5:11 am’ All buildings and shook houses in the city, causing a fire accident burned the city for several days’ Nearly three quarters of the city have died, which left nearly 400,000 people homeless’ Most refugees have temporary housing in places like beaches and the Golden Gate Park, but many have fled to the East Bay at all times’

Speaking of the city, the weather, the climate of San Francisco is a feature of California’s Mediterranean climate with wet winters and dry summers’ Besides being surrounded by water on three sides, the climate is strongly influenced by the cold Pacific Ocean currents, which tend to moderate temperature swings and produce incredible climate, with slight seasonal variations in temperature’ Snow in San Francisco is very rare, with only ten cases were recorded’ During the combination of city high heat and cold water from the ocean, the western half of the city is covered with fog in the beginning of summer and spring’

The city boasts beautiful beaches of the Indian Ocean, which stretches along the coast of the Pacific Ocean, but is not suitable for bathing in the waters off the cold and death are rip currents’ The city is amazing and fun center for performing arts and museums’ There are good public transport systems such as the San Francisco Municipal Railway cable car and trolley system’ Cycling is seen as a popular means of transport in San Francisco, with 40,000 people regularly cycling to work’ If you like travel and love to spend time with his family, must be beaten in San Francisco’