About Canada College

Cañada College is a public community scholarly in Redwood City, located in San Mateo County, California. It is one of the smallest community colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Redwood City is a city upon the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California’s Bay Area, approximately 27 miles (43 km) south of San Francisco, and 24 miles (39 km) northwest of San Jose. Redwood City’s archives spans its primordial inhabitation by the Ohlone people to monster a harbor for lumber and further goods. The county seat of San Mateo County in the heart of Silicon Valley, Redwood City is house to several global technology companies including Oracle, Electronic Arts, Evernote, Box, and Informatica. The city had an estimated population of 85,925 in 2019. The Port of Redwood City is the abandoned deepwater port upon San Francisco Bay south of San Francisco. Redwood City is the location of the San Mateo County Jail, for both women and men. The Hetch Hetchy water pipeline runs through Redwood City and supplies a enormous majority of the surrounding area with low grain (+/− 3 grains) rated water.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 34.7 square miles (90 km2), of which 19.4 square miles (50 km2) is land and 15.2 square miles (39 km2) (43.91%) is water. A major watercourse draining much of Redwood City is Redwood Creek, to which several significant river deltas connect, the largest of which is Westpoint Slough.