The soils of the Cotati area are characterized by recent alluvial materials, explicitly those areas bordering the Laguna de Santa Rosa and its tributary Washoe Creek.
One of the area's American pioneers was Robert Ayres, who in 1859 built Washoe House near the creek's headwaters.
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