Los Angeles River / Pasadena Arroyo Seco: THE CONFLUENCE (where two rivers meet)

Location as seen from Google Earth in a dry time:

Some of my special river places were "water full" on Sunday the 27th of Jan. 2008
#1 The channelized Arroyo Seco "river" coming down from Pasadena.

(arroyo means creek or draw, seco means dry)

We see here its swollen water flow just before the

Arroyo Seco joins the Los Angeles River.

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This is THE CONFLUENCE, where on August 2nd 1769
Captain Gaspar de Portola and Father Juan Crespi

along with a group of 63-67 men, entered what is now Los Angeles

through Elysian Park. It was the presence of water here that made

this a viable place for the Spanish King to establish a colony and

the nearby missions of San Fernando and San Gabriel.

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The Los Angeles Fire Department's Swift Water Rescue Team

pulled a car out of the Arroyo Seco, up stream from this site earlier in the day

at Avenue 43 and the Pasadena Freeway

in Lincoln Heights/Solano Canyon. See picture # 3 for the officer

who led the rescue. Here is the link to the full story with photos:
http://lafd.blogspot.com/2008/01/two-rescued-when-car-plunges-off.html

Picture #1a
The Arroyo Seco flowing down from Pasadena and the San Gabriel Mountains joins with the Los Angeles River here on the other side of the bridge (two views: above and below)

Picture #1b.

The Los Angeles River just a few yards before the Arroyo Seco "river" joins it.

#2 Two views of the "access road" to the Los Angeles River just
before The Confluence with the Arroyo Seco "river" shown above.

Arroyo Seco Art

Graffiti Art that was painted in October 2007 when the Arroyo Seco was dry.
Now partially inundated with river water.

Picture # 3 The LAFD's Swift Water Rescue Team officer speaks to

Professor Jenny Price's USC river tour class.

See more pics and details here: http://lafd.blogspot.com/2008/01/two-rescued-when-car-plunges-off.html