Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas/San Fierro

San Fierro, San Andreas is a fictional city based on the real city of San Francisco in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The city bears visible scars of an Earthquake, a likely reference to the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, 3 years before the game takes place.

San Fierro is located in the western part of San Andreas. South of the city lies the massive Mt. Chiliad and the little town of Angel Pine. San Fierro is a moderately sized city with a beautiful bay to the north and the Panopticon to the east. The Downtown district of the city features many landmarks such as the Transamerica Pyramid and the Gant Bridge Golden Gate Bridge. The headquarters of Zombotech Corporation are also housed here.

When Carl Johnson escaped Los Santos in the beginning of the game with his sister and her boyfriend Cesar Vialpando, they traveled to San Fierro and began a new life there. San Fierro had a dark secret, however. It had a seedy underbelly that included the Triads, the San Fierro Rifa and a mysterious drug organization supplying cocaine to former Grove Street member Big Smoke in Los Santos. When Carl finds out about these shipments, he destroys the organization and severs the drug line to Los Santos.