About College of the Sequoias

College of the Sequoias (COS) is a public two-year community college in Visalia, California. The theoretical is named for the Giant Sequoia trees original to the comprehensible Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Visalia (/vaɪˈseɪliə/ vy-SAYL-ee-ə) is a city situated in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley of California, about 230 mi (370 km) southeast of San Francisco, 190 mi (310 km) north of Los Angeles, 36 mi (58 km) west of Sequoia National Park, and 43 mi (69 km) south of Fresno. The population was 134,605 as of a 2019 U.S. Census Bureau estimate.

Visalia is the fifth-largest city in the San Joaquin Valley after Fresno, Bakersfield, Stockton, and Modesto, the 44th-most populous in California, and 202nd in the United States.

As the county seat of Tulare County, Visalia serves as the economic and governmental center to one of the most productive agricultural counties in the country.

Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks are located in the easily reached Sierra Nevada mountains, the highest mountain range in the contiguous United States.