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California's Great America

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City of Santa Clara

Santa Clara, Calif., founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city is the site of the eighth of 21 California missions, Mission Santa Clara de Asís, and was named after the mission.

Santa Clara is located in the center of Silicon Valley, and is home to the headquarters of Intel, Applied Materials, Sun Microsystems, NVIDIA, Agilent Technologies, and many other high-tech companies. It is home to both Mission College and Santa Clara University, the latter being the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of California.

Santa Clara is also home to Great America, an amusement park operated by Cedar Fair, L.P. The San Francisco 49ers NFL football team has its headquarters and practice facilities in Santa Clara and the city's residents recently approved a 68,500-seat stadium for the 49ers to be built in an area adjacent to California's Great America.

Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University is California's oldest-operating institution of higher education, with more than 150 years of history. The university was founded in 1851 and occupies 106 acres of land adjacent to Mission Santa Clara de Asis, which is the eighth oldest of the original 21 California missions. The university boasts an undergraduate enrollment of about 5,200 and competes in NCAA D-I athletics.