road-trip0120161213Ever wonder why every time you drive to San Pablo, you always see the sign “City of Seven Lakes”? It may not be as important now, but in the past, these seven lakes offered a place for people to live and for culture to flourish.

San Pablo’s overabundance of lakes are maar craters formed by phreatomagmatic eruptions, when ground water meets hot magma pushing up near the surface. Its higher elevation on the slope of Mount Marayap (“native lemons grow”) and rich soil provided abundant harvests for its early settlers.

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