Week 7 Lab

The area I selected is part of the San Ysidro mountain range in southern San Diego, near the border. I have a fond connection to the San Ysidro Mountains, not because they are among the tallest or the most striking mountains in the world, but because they are the mountains I grew up gazing longingly at. The San Ysidro Mountains are not unlike the typical mountains found along the southern Pacific coast. They are rugged earth-brown in color, sparse in natural trees, and covered mainly by chaparral plants, faded and shrubby plants like sage scrub and scrub oak. In the winter time, a few of the taller mountain peaks actually get blanketed by a mantle of snow, which I still think is a dramatic and even unusual sight from my house in the lowlands.

Extent Information

North/Top 33.0819444435
West/Left -117.036111111
South/Bottom -116.402499999
East/Right 32.6683333323

Geographic Coordinate System

GCM North American 1983