text: One beautiful Autumn day in Portland Oregon downtown from Vista Bridge with view of Mount Hood City Skyline and Trees with Fall Color Foliage. David Gn Photography/ Moment/ Getty Images
  Portland's weather is famous for its rain. However, the spring and summer are quite lovely and mild. The Willamette V alley to the south of Portland is important for its agriculture and wine production. The Cascade Mountains are located to the east of Portland. Mt. Hood has three major skiing facilities and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. The Columbia river gorge is also located close to Portland.
  X is located in the Y region of (country)
  Writing About a City Exercise
  For each topic, write down a list of specific facts using your reference materials. For example: Weather - more than 80 inches of snow on average extremely hot summers etc.
  Take each fact and write a sentence about that fact. For example:Boulder receives more than 80 inches of snow on average each winter.
  Combine your sentences into a paragraph on each broad topic. Make sure to use linking language, pronouns, etc. to link the ideas in your sentences into a logical sequence.
  Beare, Kenneth. "Writing About Cities." ThoughtCo, Aug. 26, 2020, thoughtco.com/writing-about-cities-1212365. Beare, Kenneth. (2020, August 26). Writing About Cities. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/writing-about-cities-1212365 Beare, Kenneth. "Writing About Cities." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/writing-about-cities-1212365 (accessed July 7, 2022).