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Black Mountain (near Los Altos, California)
Black Mountain
is a summit on Monte Bello Ridge in the
Santa Cruz Mountains
of west
Santa Clara County, California
, south of
Los Altos
and
Los Altos Hills
, and west of
Cupertino
. It is located on the border between
Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
and
Monte Bello Open Space Preserve
, with the summit located in the former. Early Spanish explorers commonly named tree- or chaparral-covered summits which look black in the distance
Loma Prieta
, from the Spanish (
loma
-hill,
prieta
-dark). The Spanish also called the middle portion of the Santa Cruz Mountains the
Sierra Morena
meaning (
morena
-brunette,
sierra
-mountain range), extending from Half Moon Bay Road (
California State Route 92
) south to a gap at
Lexington Reservoir
, and which includes a summit called Sierra Morena. There are over 100 "
Black Mountains
" in California.
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