East Side Cadet Academy

University Preparatory Academy (UPA) is a charter school located in San Jose, California, United States. Its charter was approved by the Santa Clara Board of Trustees. UPA opened in the fall of 2007 as a middle and high school, offering grades 7–12th. As of 2020, approximately 650 students attend UPA with a 21:1 student-teacher ratio.In 2020, UPA was ranked the 120th best high school in the nation and the 13th best in California by U.S. News & World Report.

Canoas Creek is a tributary creek to the Guadalupe River. Canoas creek's was a originally a series of ponds and wetlands named "Arroyo de las Tulares de las Canoas" after the numerous tule plants in these marshes that were used to build canoes. In 1889 the city of San Jose used Santa Clara County prison labor to build a 2,000 foot hand dug channel to formerly connect Canoas Creek at Almaden Road to the Guadalupe Creek in order to drain the marsh.Canoas creek is prone to flash floods that have caused the Guadalupe Creek to flood downtown San Jose several times. Over time the creek has been dug deeper and in the 1970s much of the creek was turned into concrete channels.Fish caught in this creek include: Bass, Carp, Catfish and Trout. Valley water manages the upkeep of the concrete channels as well as reducing the vegetation along the creek using a large herd of goats.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of San José in California (Latin: Diœcesis Sancti Josephi in California; Spanish: Diócesis de San José en California) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States. It comprises Santa Clara County, and is led by a bishop. Its patron saints are Saint Joseph and Saint Clare of Assisi. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Its fellow suffragans include the Dioceses of Honolulu, Las Vegas, Oakland, Reno, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Santa Rosa and Stockton. The Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph in Downtown San Jose is the cathedral church of the diocese. The diocesan offices are located at 1150 North First Street. The diocese serves over 600,000 Catholics in 52 parishes and missions, three university campus ministries, and 38 schools.

The San Juan Bautista Hills (Spanish: Colinas de San Juan Bautista) are a small, short range of hills in San Jose, California, located in South San Jose in the middle of the Santa Clara Valley.

San Jose, California, is the third largest city in the state, and the largest of all cities in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California, with a population of 1,021,795.

Vieira Park is a park in San Jose, California, on Communications Hill.

Oak Hill Memorial Park is a cemetery in San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest secular cemetery in California. Oak Hill is the northernmost hill in the San Juan Bautista Hills of South San Jose.

Communications Hill is a neighborhood located in the San Juan Bautista Hills of San Jose, California.

Curtner station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). Curtner station is served by the Blue Line of the VTA Light Rail system. The station is located within the median of State Route 87, where it crosses over Curtner Avenue in San Jose, California.

Capitol station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). Capitol station is served by the Blue Line of the VTA Light Rail system. The Capitol is located in the median of State Route 87, near the intersection with Capitol Expressway in San Jose, California.

Willow Glen High School is a public high school in the Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose, California, within the San Jose Unified School District.

Tamien is an intermodal passenger transportation station in the Tamien neighborhood of central San Jose, California, served by the VTA light rail and the Caltrain commuter rail line, along with bus connections. The station has two elevated island platforms, one for each service. The two platforms are connected by a walkway at ground-level that is below the two platforms. The light rail platform is located in the center median of the State Route 87 freeway just north of the Alma Avenue overpass. The Caltrain platform is located between Lick Avenue and State Route 87, just north of Alma Avenue. The station is served by the Blue Line of the VTA Light Rail system and is connected to the Highway 87 Bikeway.The station is named after the Tamien (also spelled Tamyen) who are some of the Ohlone, a Native American people.