Alviso is a small community in Santa Clara County, California. It is located at the north end of San Jose where it meets the southern end of the San Francisco Bay. Santa Clara County is a county located in Californias San Francisco Bay Area. ... City nickname: Capital of Silicon Valley Location within Santa Clara County, California Country   State     County United States   California     Santa Clara Mayor Ron Gonzales Area  - Land  - Water 178. ... San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary in which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ...

The Guadalupe River and Coyote Creek both end at Alviso, emptying into the Bay through the Alviso Slough. In 1983, Alviso was victim to severe flooding caused by El Niño. The Guadalupe River is a short river in California that runs from the Santa Cruz Mountains flowing north through San Jose, California, and emptying into the San Francisco Bay at Alviso. ... 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... El Niño is also the nickname of Sergio García. ...

Alviso was first settled in the 1700s. The city was incorporated on March 4, 1852, and ceased to exist when it was annexed by the city of San Jose on March 12, 1968, following a 189 to 180 vote in favor of annexation. (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Annexation is the legal merging of some territory into another body. ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

Originally, Alviso was a boating and shipping port, the primary transportation link for the city of San Jose. That usage declined with the growth in railroad transportation between San Francisco and San Jose. This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... San Francisco skyline. ...

Today, shipping and industry have left Alviso, leaving it mostly as a residential neighborhood. Digital video recorder company Tivo is based in the community. The TiVo personal video recorder is a consumer video component allowing users to capture television programming to internal hard drive storage. ...

External links

• Alviso community web pages (http://www.alviso.com)