AMGEN TOUR RETURNS TO SANTA CLARITA.Byline: Gerry Gittelson Staff Writer VALENCIA -- For the third consecutive year, Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, has been selected as one of the 16 host cities for the Amgen Tour of California The Amgen Tour of California is a professional cycling stage race on the UCI America Tour and USA Cycling Professional Tour that made its debut on February 19, 2006. Sponsored by the biotechnology company Amgen, the eight-day race covers between 650-700 miles (1,045 - 1,126 km). professional cycling race, scheduled for Feb. 14-22, it was announced Wednesday at a news conference. On the second-to-last day of the race, Santa Clarita is slated to host the start of Stage 8, ending in Pasadena. The final session begins the following day from Rancho Bernardo to Escondido. The Amgen Tour of California is the largest cycling race in America, a Tour de France-style event that challenges the world's top professionals. "We're very excited. What an event this is," Santa Clarita mayor Bob Kellar said. "It's a win-win situation, because it creates more than $1 million in economic impact for the city of Santa Clarita, and it's great for the citizens as a quality-of-life program. We're pleased and thrilled it's coming back." The 2009 event, which begins in Sacramento, has been expanded in terms of duration and state footprint, and contestants compete for the highest prize purse of any cycling race in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The race covers a total of 800 miles. The other stops are Davis, Santa Rosa Santa Rosa, city, Argentina Santa Rosa, city (1991 pop. 80,629), capital of La Pampa prov., central Argentina. It is a modern city and road junction surrounded by a rich agricultural and cattle-raising area. , Sausalito, Santa Cruz, San Jose, Modesto, Merced, Clovis, Visalia, Paso Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
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