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The Gabilan Range or Gabilán Range (Spanish for "sparrow hawk")[2][3][4] are a mountain range in the inner California Coast Ranges System, located in Monterey County and San Benito County of central California. Pinnacles National Park is located in the southern section of the range.

Gabilan Range
Gabilán Range
Gabilan Range panorama.
Highest point
Peak	Fremont Peak
Elevation	1,053 m (3,455 ft)
Geography
Location of Gabilan Range in California[1]
Country	United States
State	California
District	San Benito County & Monterey County
Range coordinates	36°36′39.864″N 121°18′52.750″W
Topo map	USGS Mount Johnson

Geography

The Gabilan Range trends in a northwest–southeast direction along the Monterey County and San Benito County line. It is bordered on the east by the Diablo Range, the San Andreas Fault, and State Route 25; and on the west by the Salinas Valley, Santa Lucia Range, and U.S. Route 101. The northern limit of the Gabilan Range lies just south of Pinecate Peak[5] and San Juan Bautista, California.[6]

Fremont Peak, at 3,455 feet (1,053 m) in elevation, is the range's highest point. There are several other peaks also over 3,000 feet (910 m) in the range.

History

In Spanish, gavilán (gabilan is an older alternate rendering) means "sparrow hawk".[7][8] Hawks, especially the red-tailed hawk, are common in the range.

The Gabilan Mountains and other nearby places are mentioned in several novels by John Steinbeck, such as Of Mice and Men and East of Eden. In The Red Pony notably, the main character (Jody Tiflin) names his pony "Gabilan" after the mountain range.

Fremont Peak was named for John C. Frémont, an American explorer and a Captain in the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers who assessed the military value of the peak in 1846, posing a threat to the Mexican authorities. It is now a California State Park.[9]

Ecology

One of the last relatively undeveloped corridors for wildlife passage between the southern Santa Cruz Mountains and the northern Gabilan Range runs from lands between Mount Pajaro[10] and Rancho Juristac, in southern Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties respectively, south across California State Route 129 and U.S. Highway 101 to lands between Pinecate Peak[11] and San Juan Bautista in San Benito County.[12] The Land Trust of Santa Cruz County has protected the first block of land intended to protect the Santa Cruz Mountains-Gabilan Range Wildlife Corridor, the 2,640 acres (4.13 sq mi) Rocks Ranch in Aromas at the border of San Benito and Monterey counties.[13]

See also

• Gabilan Range topics
• California interior chaparral and woodlands
• Pinnacles National Park

References

External links

• National Park Service: Pinnacles National Park website

На других языках

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[fr] Chaînon Gabilan

Le chaînon Gabilan, ou monts Gabilan, est situé dans les chaînes côtières du Pacifique sur la Côte centrale de Californie, s'étalant du nord-ouest au sud-ouest, le long des comtés de Monterrey et de San Benito. Le chaînon Gabilan est bordé à l'est par la chaîne Diablo, la faille de San Andreas et la route d'État californienne no 25. À l'ouest du chaînon se situent le chaînon Santa Lucia, la vallée de la Salinas et la route Interstate 101. La chaîne de montagnes abrite le pic Fremont (967 mètres), le Pinnacles National Monument et deux sommets à plus de 1 000 mètres d'altitude : le mont Johnson (1 053 mètres) et la cime septentrionale du pic Chalone (1 008 mètres)[1].

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