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San Fermín
San Fermín (Sanfermines): nine-day festival in Pamplona, Spain, 6-14 July, born of religious rites, a livestock fair and bull runs; famous for the 8 a.m. encierro and Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.
San Fernando de Apure
San Fernando de Apure, capital of Venezuela's Apure state on the Apure River in the Llanos; founded 28 February 1788 by Governor Fernando Miyares González; cattle-ranching and river-trade hub, tropical savanna climate, flood-prone.
San Fernando Gas Pipeline
The San Fernando Gas Pipeline (Gasoducto San Fernando), also known as Gasoducto de Tamaulipas, is a 114-kilometer natural gas pipeline in Tamaulipas, Mexico, opened in 2003.
San Fernando Mission Cemetery
San Fernando Mission Cemetery, a Catholic cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, beside Mission San Fernando Rey de España; first burial 1800, modern grounds opened 1952, burials include Ritchie Valens and Bob Hope. Distinct from the Sylmar Pioneer Memorial Cemetery.
San Fernando PV solar farm
The San Fernando PV solar farm is a 125 MW photovoltaic power plant in Benjamín Hill, Sonora, Mexico, developed by Fisterra Energy and operating since 2020.
San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley: sediment-filled basin northwest of downtown Los Angeles, home to about 1.8 million people; Tongva homeland, Mission San Fernando (1797), 1913 aqueduct, 2002 failed secession.
San Fernando, Andalusia
San Fernando (formerly Isla de León) is a city of about 93,500 people in the Bay of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain. A naval town since the 18th century, renamed San Fernando in 1813 and birthplace of Camarón de la Isla.
San Fernando, Pampanga
San Fernando, Pampanga: first-class component city, provincial capital of Pampanga and administrative center of Central Luzon; founded 1754, cityhood 2001 (RA 8990), 354,666 people in 2020, home of the Giant Lantern Festival.
San Francisco
San Francisco, California: dense coastal city of 826,079 (2025), core of the Bay Area tech economy with $250 billion GDP, extreme housing costs, post-pandemic budget deficits, and 1906 earthquake history.
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" is a 1967 pop song written by John Phillips and sung by Scott McKenzie, promoting the Monterey Pop Festival.
San Francisco 49ers
The San Francisco 49ers are an NFL team in Santa Clara, California, founded in 1946 by Tony Morabito as an AAFC charter member, with five Super Bowl wins.
San Francisco Armory
The San Francisco Armory, also known as the Mission Armory, is a fortress-like 1914 National Guard armory in San Francisco's Mission District, later the headquarters of Kink.com.
San Francisco Art Institute
The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a fine arts school in San Francisco, founded in 1871, the West Coast's oldest fine art school, and closed permanently in July 2022.
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay is the largest Pacific estuary in the Americas, a 1,600-square-mile tidal estuary where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers meet the Pacific through the Golden Gate, shaped by ice-age filling, Gold Rush sediment, and modern restoration.
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area is a nine-county Northern California region around San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bays, with about 7.66 million residents in 2025, a nearly $1.5 trillion economy, and landmarks including SFO, BART, and the Golden Gate Bridge.
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), California regional agency created by the 1965 McAteer-Petris Act; permits Bay fill, dredging, and shoreline development, requires maximum feasible public access, protects Suisun Marsh, 27 commissioners.
San Francisco cable car system
The San Francisco cable car system, invented by Andrew Smith Hallidie, opened in 1873 and is the last manually operated cable car system in the world.
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle, founded January 16, 1865 as the Daily Dramatic Chronicle by Charles and Michael de Young, is the largest northern California daily, owned by Hearst since 2000, with six Pulitzer Prizes and about 135 newsroom staff.
San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco City Hall is the seat of San Francisco's government, a Beaux-Arts building in the Civic Center dedicated in 1915 with a gilded dome taller than the US Capitol.
San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System
The San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System (AWSS) is a dedicated high-pressure firefighting water network, built from 1908 to 1913 after the 1906 earthquake and fire.
San Francisco Firebells
San Francisco Firebells, WPBL women's pro baseball team (2026-), named for Lillie 'Firebelle Lil' Hitchcock Coit; best 10-5 inaugural record, lost first championship 3-2 to LA Queens.
San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco General Hospital, today formally the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, is San Francisco's public safety-net hospital, opened in 1872 and the city's only Level 1 trauma center.
San Francisco Giants
San Francisco Giants, MLB National League West franchise founded 1883 as the New York Gothams, renamed Giants in 1885, moved to San Francisco in 1958; 23 NL pennants, eight World Series titles, home Oracle Park.
San Francisco International Airport
San Francisco International Airport, known as SFO, is a major airport in San Mateo County, California, about 14 miles south of San Francisco, opened in 1927 as Mills Field Municipal Airport.
San Francisco Peninsula
The San Francisco Peninsula, known locally as the Peninsula, separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean, extending from the Santa Clara Valley to the Golden Gate.
San Francisco Police Department
The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) is San Francisco's municipal police force, founded in 1849 during the Gold Rush, operating ten district stations under a Chief of Police, overseen by a seven-member Police Commission and the Department of Police Accountability.
San Francisco Pride
San Francisco Pride (SF Pride) is an annual LGBTQ celebration and parade in San Francisco, held the last full weekend of June and attended by about one million people.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is San Francisco's public utility agency, providing the city's drinking water, wastewater, and power services through the Hetch Hetchy water system and CleanPowerSF.
San Francisco Renaissance
The San Francisco Renaissance was the emergence of a cluster of poets and writers in the San Francisco Bay Area at the end of World War II.
San Francisco Signal
San Francisco Signal, also known as LOVB San Francisco, is a professional women's volleyball team in San Francisco, California, joining League One Volleyball for its inaugural 2027 season.