Indio, California
Riverside County
06-36448
Indio is a city in Riverside County in the U.S. state of California, United States, with about 76,000 inhabitants ( 2010 census ). The metropolitan area has a size of 75.6 km ². In the north of Indio, the Joshua Tree National Park is located in the east of the Salton Sea. Interstate 10 runs east -west direction through Indio.
The city's name is derived from the Spanish word for Indians. It is located about 160 kilometers from Los Angeles in the Coachella Valley. In the resort, many date palms grow. It is dedicated to them since 1921 annual festivals. They cover about 95 % of the demand in the United States. The drinking water supply ensures the All-American Canal.
- 4.1 Annual festivals
- 4.2 Attractions
Geography
Indio is located in central Riverside County, California in the United States. It is bordered on the east by Coachella, on the southwest by La Quinta and Bermuda Dunes to the west. In the north and south, unincorporated community connects to Indio.
The city is connected via several highways well connected to the long distance network. The southern city is crossed by the California State Route 111, north of their runs - also in West-East direction - Interstate 10 The two roads are connected to each other via the slip road Indio Boulevard. Just beyond the eastern city limit, the California State Route 86 splits on a motorway junction on Interstate 10.
Indio is part of the Coachella Valley and has 76 036 inhabitants (as of 2010 census ). The city covers an area of 75.600 km ², consists of 75.579 km ² with the majority of the land area; the population density is thus 1006 inhabitants per square kilometer. The city center is marked by Indians Town Hall, located at -4 meters below sea level. Among the 24 kilometers away Salton Sea toward the municipal area in the east reduces even to as low as -50 meters.
About five kilometers north-east of Indio is the San Andreas Fault, which forms the boundary between the Pacific and North American plate.
In Indio, the easternmost branch offices of the Riverside County are located, as the city in the past has always been the most populous city in the Coachella Valley; only from 1955 to 1992 was Palm Springs Indio surpass.
Nature
Indio is located in the Colorado Desert, which is part of the larger Sonoran Desert. The site is adjacent to the Salton Valley and lies on the territory of the former Lake Cahuillas. Today Indio is because of the flight paths of migratory birds that pass through on the way to the Salton Sea and the city, an official National Bird Sanctuary.
Climate
The climate of the Coachella Valley and hence Indians is strongly influenced by the environment. The location between three high mountains in a valley sloping to the south leads to a unique, warm climate in every season; winters can be even the warmest west in the U.S. Rocky Mountains. According to the Köppen -Geiger classification prevails in Indio Hot desert climate ( BWh ). The average annual maximum temperature is 31.9 ° C, the lowest temperature of 16.7 ° C. In summer, however, temperatures above 42 ° C are common, and in rare cases, 49 ° C can be achieved. Even in the summer nights, the low temperature is still at 28 ° C. The maximum values of the day be in winter 20-30 ° C. The average annual rainfall is below 100 mm, the number of sunny days at about 348 per year. The highest temperature ever measured in Indio dates of July 6, 1905 and was 52 ° C. The average annual temperature is 24.3 ° C.
History
The place Indio originated as a stopover of the Southern Pacific Railroad between Yuma, Arizona and Los Angeles. Only one called the settlement Indian Wells, what is the name of a nearby town today. However, since many other places have Indian Wells were named, the city's Spanish name was given to Indio. With the arrival of the railway in 1876, the settlement began to develop; the first permanent house was the depot of the railroad with his hotel. It was built in Craftman Style. Hotel The Southern Pacific Railroad tried in the face of inhospitable territory workers' lives as comfortable as possible to make so contained an elegant dining room and held Friday evenings dancing.
Founded as a railway settlement, has Indio changed after a short time in a dominantly agricultural area. Thanks Artesian wells onions, cotton, grapes, citrus trees and date palms were able to grow well; later was also used the All-American Canal for irrigation. Nevertheless, the water remained a problem for Indio, since the city was flooded several times until the construction of storm sewers in the Coachella Valley.
Entrepreneurs Indio discovered for themselves. Dr Harry Smiley and his wife Nell stayed with her car are on the way to Los Angeles and became early inhabitants Indians. They gained influence and landscaped the area with. AG Tingman owned a business and was the first Postmaster of Indio, but was also known to exploit miners for their work. Later Dr. June Robertson McCarroll came to Indio and became a respected doctor and philanthropist. After being repeatedly hit by cars, sat by McCarroll, together with the local women's club, that henceforth white stripes painted on the road in California. Indio was able to quickly establish and maintain the created by the railway time character.
Already at the beginning of the 20th century Indio was not an inert railroad town more. It schools and the La Casita hospital were built, and many families settled there. From 1920 Indio had between one thousand and two thousand year-round residents in the winter months with 2500 to 5000 inhabitants even much more. However, the neighboring towns of Coachella and Thermal surpassed these numbers soon. Nevertheless, Indio continued to grow and in 1930 received a city charter. On September 6, 1930 the store owner Fred Kohler was presented as the first inhabitants Indios a business license.
Later, when many residents moved to the more Western, newer cities such as Palm Desert, Indio had to cope with a setback. Currently, this trend seems to have returned and take the east of the Coachella Valley a more central role.
Policy
Indio is part of the 28th district in the Senate of California, which is currently represented by Democrat Ted Lieu, and the 56th District of the California State Assembly, represented by Democrat V. Manuel Perez. Furthermore belongs to Indio California's 36th congressional district, which a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R 1 and is represented by Democrat Raul Ruiz.
The vertical plane passing through the city of Monroe Street represents a kind of socio-economic limit on the political attitudes of citizens is: The territories east of the road are more democratically dominated, while voters tend in the western city area to the Republican Party. In 2001, Forbes Magazine rated the western part of the Indians, together with the neighboring villages of western La Quinta, Bermuda Dunes and Indian Wells as one of the most affluent areas in the United States.
Culture
Annual festivals
Because of the numerous annual festivals and events in the city of Indio has officially receive from their Chamber of Commerce nicknamed "The City of Festivals ." Throughout the year several concerts, monster truck rallies, rodeo and horse and camel racing festival will take place at the Riverside County Fairgrounds in the stadium.
Two important annual festivals are the " Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival " and the " Indio International Tamale Festival ". The former is held every February at the Riverside County Fairgrounds in the center Indios at California State Route 111. Since 1947, the date harvest in the Coachella Valley is celebrated with this. The Tamale Festival is always aligned in December in Old Town Indios and holds two Guinness World Records: The festival in 2000 was 120,000 visitors, the World's Largest Tamale Festival, and with a length of 12.2 meters and 0.3 meters in diameter could largest Tamale be made .
In 1993, a concert of the band Pearl Jam was held at the Empire Polo Club, and six years later, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was launched. On the famous music festival occurred mid weiler stars and bands like Prince, Paul McCartney, Radiohead, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Pixies, The Cure, The White Stripes, Jay Z, Tool, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane 's Addiction and Roger Waters on. The event was extended in 2007 to three days.
In May 2007, the organizers of the Coachella festival taught for the first time the Stagecoach Festival from a two-day country music festival, which takes place after the Coachella weekend. These were already musicians and bands such as George Strait, Kenny Chesney, the Eagles, Sugarland, Taylor Swift and Kid Rock as a guest.
Attractions
The " Coachella Valley History Museum " at the Miles Avenue in Indio includes a 8,000 -square-foot site on which the Smiley - Tyler - house dating from 1926, the school building from 1909, the world's only Dattelmuseum, gardens and archives historical for storage artifacts from the Coachella Valley are located.
In Indio Hills Palms Reserve rarely grow rare California Washington Palms ( Washingtonia filifera ), although there are some places, however, such a large population as in the canyons of the Indio Hills. Along a line that is on the by the San Andreas Fault groundwater for the palm trees are available, there is a nature reserve that is part of the adjacent Coachella Valley Preserve. Here grow more native palm species. The city closest to Palm stocks can be reached from a parking lot six kilometers north of Indio via hiking trails.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Oscar Loya, musical performer
- Vanessa Marcil, Actress
- Stan Van Gundy, basketball coach