Although Los Angeles is associated with the continent's far west, the city is actually east of Reno, Nevada.
Before 1825, the Los Angeles River joined up with Ballona Creek and emptied into the Santa Monica today. A giant flash flood in that year, however, was powerful enough to change its course.
Before
the Army Corps of Engineers came to encase the entire river in concrete in the 1920's, seasonal flooding caused havoc on the city.
Today the river is most associated with its downtown homeless and heroin addict culture.
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