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Place Name
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Hetch Hetchy Valley
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Place Status (Type)
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national park
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Location
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Tuolumne County, California (CA), United States, North America
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Latitude
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unknown
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Longitude
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unknown
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Hetch Hetchy Valley
, in Yosemite Natl. Park, Tuolumne co.,
central Calif., on the Tuolumne R.,
12 mi/19 km N of Yosemite village.
O'Shaughnessy Dam (forms Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in lower
10 mi/16 km of valley) turned the valley into
a lake 10 mi/16 km long, which is used for
generating power and for supplying water to San Francisco by Hetch
Hetchy Aqueduct. Also called the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne.
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