Palo Alto (/ˌpæloʊ ˈæltoʊ/; Spanish for ’tall stick’) is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.
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