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Pictured: Burney Falls 100 million gallons daily flow

Visit California recently released it’s annual guide with a fun, by-the-numbers count of California’s 12 regions.

SAN DIEGO COUNTY

• 70 Continuous miles of beaches
• 40% of California avocados
• 32,496,352 LEGO bricks in Legoland Miniland U.S.A.
• 20 years breedin seahorses, Birch Aquarium

DESERTS

• 20,000 banana items, International Banana Museum
• 12 Polo fields at Indio’s Empire Polo Club
• 120 Coachella Valley golf courses
• 8,000 rock-climbing routes, Joshua Tree National Park

INLAND EMPIRE

• 68.1 feet World’s Largest Paper Cup, Riverside
• 1964 Rolling Stones first U.S. concert, San Bernardino
• 2,000 Classic cars, Ontario’s Route 66 Cruisin’ Reunion
• 2.7 million annual visitors, Temecula wineries

ORANGE COUNTY

• 41,000 Acres, Irvine Ranch
• 30,000 Migrating birds, Upper Newport Bay
• 1,296 feet San Clemente Pier
• 500,000 Spectators, Huntington Beach US Open of Surfing

LOS ANGELES COUNTY

• 2,614 Stars, Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 71 Beach volleyball courts, Hermosa Beach
• 1,000 entertainment company headquarters, Burbank
• 11,000 ocean animals, Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific

CENTRAL COAST

• 30 Sea caves, Anacapa Island
• 41 fireplaces, Hearst Castle
• 27,403 acres avocadoes
• 1,000,000 gallons saltwater, Monterey Bay Aquarium Open Sea

CENTRAL VALLEY

• 226 Bird species, Kern Wildlife Refuge
• 50 Jelly Belly flavors, Fairfield
• 1967 First U.S. bike lane, Davis
• 21 Billboard #1 Hit singles Buck Owens, Bakersfield

HIGH SIERRA

• 14,505 feet U.S. highest contiguous peak, Mount Whitney
• 200 Caves, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks
• 65 Saloons mostly gone, Bodie ghost town
• 5 miles Heavenly Mountain Resort descent

GOLD COUNTRY

• 195 pounds troy gold nugget, Carson Hill, 1854
• 300,000 flowers, Volcano’s Daffodil Hill
• 1,185 Bedrock mortars, Pine Grove’s Indian Grinding Rock
• 1885 Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum established

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

• 10,000 Elephant seals, Pescadero’s Ano Nuevo
• 160 Rooms, San Jose’s Winchester Mystery House
• $295 Healdsburg’s 11-course tasting, Single Thread
• 25 Pipes, San Francisco’s Wave Organ

NORTH COAST

• 1945 Humboldt Crabs baseball began
• 130 Miles beaches, Mendocino County
• 379.7 feet, tallest redwood
• 1,100 pounds, largest Roosevelt elk

SHASTA CASCADE

• 13,000,000 Coleman Hatchery fish
• 300 miles Siskiyou County snowmobile trails
• 14,179 feet, Mount Shasta volcano
• 700 Lava Beds National Monument tube caves