Vallejo, California

Vallejo is a city in Solano County, California, in the United States, on the shores of San Pablo Bay, and ranks as the second largest city of the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The 2020 census counted 126,090 residents. It takes its name from Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the Californio general and statesman, and was laid out in 1851 on his Rancho Suscol with the aim of becoming the state capital, a role it held only briefly, from 1852 to 1853, before the government moved to nearby Benicia. The Mare Island Naval Shipyard, begun in 1854, shaped the local economy until the turn of the twenty-first century. Today the city is home to the Cal Poly Maritime Academy, Touro University California and the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom theme park.