Language Pacifica is in the heart of Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. It is the leading US high-tech hub with a large number of cutting-edge entrepreneurs, engineers, and venture capitalists. Every year Silicon Valley attracts thousands of people from all over the world, who come here to work and live. The unique mix of different nationalities, cultures, religions, and accents makes Silicon Valley one of the world's most interesting and attractive regions. Young people love Silicon Valley because it provides them with a lot of great opportunities--to receive a quality education highly recognized everywhere outside the region; to gain invaluable experience working in an innovative environment; and to get enriched by the area’s cultural and intellectual diversity. One can expand one’s professional knowledge in such universities and colleges as Stanford University, Santa Clara University, San Jose State University, The University of California Berkeley and Santa Cruz, Menlo College, Foothill College, De Anza College, and many others. Silicon Valley is rich in places of tourist interest. San Francisco (California Academy of Science, the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, War Memorial Opera House, Golden Gate Park, Alcatraz, etc.) and its Bay Area neighbor San Jose (San Jose Museum of Art, Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, The Tech Museum of Innovation, Rosicrucian Park, etc.) are especially popular with tourists. From Silicon Valley one can easily get to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Yosemite Park, beaches, California and Nevada ski resorts, and numerous other locations. Silicon Valley is also know for its sports and cultural events. The area hosts numerous music festivals Jazz Festivals in both San Francisco and San Jose as well as concerts and performances of a wide variety of music year round. The San Francisco Marathon is an annual event that attracts more than 7,000 participants. Professional and College American Football, Basketball and Baseball games are hosted regularly at the stadiums of San Francisco, Oakland, Stanford, and San Jose. Silicon Valley is a marvelous recreational area with hundreds of hiking (both for walking and bicycling) trails, free tennis courts, incredibly rich farmers markets, cafes and restaurants of cuisines from all corners of the world. Just come and see! Map of State Parks near Menlo Park