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2 unusual facts about Tehachapi Mountains


Discovery Kids

The show is similar in nature to Survivor, whereby teams compete in exotic locales (such as Hawaii and Tehachapi).

Quino Checkerspot

The animal's historic range once included much of coastal California south of Ventura County as well as the inland valleys south of the Tehachapi Mountains.


Antelope Valley of the California High Desert AVA

The Antelope Valley region is an east-facing valley, opening up to the Mojave Desert, with the Tehachapi Mountains to the north and west, and the San Gabriel Mountains, the Sierra Pelona Mountains, and Portal Ridge to the south.

New Appalachia

The San Joaquin Valley consists of the southern half of the Central Valley, between the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south.

Tauschia parishii

It is endemic to California, where it occurs in several mountain ranges, including the White and Inyo Mountains, the Tehachapis, and the San Gabriel, San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains.

Tehachapi slender salamander

It is considered a threatened species in California, and is found only in isolated areas of the Piute and Tehachapi Mountains of the Transverse Ranges in Southern California.


see also

The Grapevine

The Grapevine, a road grade that ascends from California's San Joaquin Valley to the Tejon Pass in the Tehachapi Mountains