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Coordinates: 37°25′45″N 122°08′17″W 37.42917, -122.13806

Palo Alto

Palo Alto (IPA plolto, from Spanish palo "stick" and alto "high") is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA. It is named after a tree called El Palo Alto. The city includes portions of Stanford University and is headquarters to a number of Silicon Valley high-technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard and Facebook. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 58,598 residents.^[1]

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