One of California’s most remarkable features is its geography. This state is around 1,64,000 square miles, making it the third of the largest state of the fifty states. 155, 973 of those square miles are land, the remaining 7,734 square miles are covered b water. California also has one of the highest and lowest points of the United States in it, Mt. Whitney is the highest mountain of the 48 consecutive states, and the Death Valley is the lowest point in the US. The only bad part of California’s location, at 114 degrees west to 124 degrees west longitude and 32 degrees north to 42 degrees north, is that it is at a fairly unstable area, in between two plates, the great San Andrews Fault. This fault has caused a lot of damage, earthquakes, mud slides, and cracks recorded in the history of California, but the fault does not affect all the regions of California. The regions are the Pacific Border, also known as the Coastal Uplands, the Sierra Cascade province, the Basin and Range province, and the Lower Californian province. In all of these provinces the climate is different. In general, except for the high mountains, the climate is know for being cool, with mild winters, and warm to hot summers. The rain season is from October to April, in general the north has lower temperatures and greater precipitation.