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Los Angeles , with 14 Mill. Inhabitants second largest metropolis of USA before well 200 years, 1781, of the Spanish governor de Neve and the Franziskanerpater Junipero Serra, as Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de of Los Angeles based, accommodated the " village of the angels " at present American conquest, in the mexikan american war, even once 1500 souls. California gold fever 1848 - 51 gave the impact for the following expansion. Up to the turn of the century the population grew on approx. 100.000. Connected with it it came to problems with the water supply. Over a Aequadukt had to be transported the water over 400 km from the Sierra Nevada. Today Los Angeles A Supply itself via a system of channels, which goes until north California and to the artificial lakes of the Colorado. The everyday water supply as well as the almost daily " traffic infarkt " nevertheless represents the largest problem of the city.
The climate in LA is changeful. The daytime temperatures in the summer are appropriate for smog, cloudy appearance or sea-fog leagues in the area between 23° C and 28°C. presupposed neither over the city. Clear weather particularly between August and November, Rain is predominantly the winter months reserved.
Metoropolitan Los Angeles does not possess a natural, grown town centre, e.g. San Francisco. Who brings in here bsw. from San Diego, hardly the transition of both cities will detect. Downtown Los Angeles, is as usual for American large cities, a business centre with a skyline from glass and concrete.
If large sections of the city were wrested once wild-like levels, the northern suburbs on the line Pasadena San already grow bernardino into the Foothills of the to a large extent deserted San Gabriel Mountains.
Little admits is that at altitudes between 2000m to 2700m only approximately 50 mi far away from Downtown Los Angeles in the winter ski can be running.
The " Freeways "
Los Angeles is the driver city absolutely. And although the motorways ten - pull until twelve lines, over frequently four-leveled crossings by the city, these are to the Rush Hour usually hopelessly clogged. Workstation for a further development of the street-net is missing any longer, and plans for a doppelstoeckige traffic management one let 1989 fall, rightfully like the Freeway collapses with the earthquake 1993 proven.
To the Sightseeing Saturdays are therefore preferably offered and sun - and holidays on. Changing over to other roads off the Freeways is with larger distances themselves on the broadly removed and rarely clogged main traffic boulevards because of innumerable traffic lights very time-consuming.
For what then at all with the car?
Now, the most attractions and objects of interest Los Angeles ' lie apart often very far. If one wants only one section of it to visit, fast several hundred miles on the display collect themselves. For LA conditions the popular trip targets Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, the Wilshire district and Downtown still relative close are situated together and in short distance from the airport. Getty museum and the most popular beaches over the mansion quarters at the Sunset boulevard , the museums in the Hancock park, Downtown, Old Town and China Town , the Griffith Park up to Universal Studios concentrate there the majority of the visitor attractions.
Approximately 35 - 45 km south of Downtown LA (Harbor or Long Beach Freeway) form the rocky peninsula Rancho Palos Verde,Long Beach and the southern beaches a wider start area. Northeast of it are the neighbour cities Buena park and Anaheim with the entertainment parks Disneyland and Knott's Berry farm.