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Welcome to El Centro, California.
As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 37,835. El Centro is located east of San Diego and is the commercial hub for Imperial County, of which it is the county seat, near the Mexican border.
It is a processing and shipping center for a heavily irrigated agricultural region (vegetables, grain, cotton, livestock), and there is light manufacturing. A U.S. naval air station is nearby. It lies within the agriculturally rich Imperial Valley, where a once barren desert has been transformed into productive farmland that produces tomatoes, sugar beets, melons and lettuce. Imperial County extends over 4,500 square miles, bordering Mexico on the south, Riverside County to the north, San Diego County to the west and the state of Arizona to the east. The terrain varies from 235 feet below sea level at the Salton Sea to 4,500 feet at Blue Angel Peak, and the climate is hot and dry with little moisture.
There are two international border crossings nearby for commercial and noncommercial vehicles. Covering 10.75 square miles, is the largest city in Imperial County. It is located 616 miles southwest of San Francisco, 117 miles east of San Diego and 245 miles west of Phoenix AZ. and just 15 minutes from the international industrial complexes in Mexicali, Baja California. El Centro is accessible via Interstate 8, State Highway 86 and State Highway 111.
Several state and Federal government offices are located in El Centro, such as the Bureau of Land Management, Federal Bureau of Investigations, U.S. Border Patrol Headquarters, Social Security Administration, Employment Development Department and Department of Agriculture.
Imperial Sand Dunes Recreational Area. Photo by lemonad, September 2006
The Imperial Valley Campus is a two-year upper-division campus of San Diego State University serving the desert area of southeastern California.
Activities abound in the area, including hiking and back packing, horseback riding, camping, rockhounding and gold panning. Some of the most popular points of interest include the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area and the Algodones Sand Dune System, two of largest sand dune systems in the United States. The Imperial has some crests that reach over 300 feet, and both offer opportunities for solitude, unique photographs and a chance to view rare plants and animals.
Other places to visit near El Centro are the Tumco Historic Mine Site, Mesquite Mine and Overlook and Interpretive Trail, the Yuha Basin and the Indian Pass Road and Wilderness Area.
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Local daily news in El Centro:
10 areas in state top 15% unemployment
California in June continued to have the most metro areas with the highest unemployment, taking 10 of the top 12 slots of jobless rates over 15%, reports the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics today.
Jobless rates drop in half U.S. metropolitan areas
Unemployment rates fell in June from a year earlier in nearly half of the major U.S. metropolitan areas but more than a third had jobless rates of at least 10 percent, the Labor Department said on Wednesday.
Day Camps for girls
Two week long Day-camps. The Passport to Travel Camps are being hosted by the Girl Scouts of San Diego and Imperial Counties.
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Places of interest:
Imperial, CA (3.9 miles), Heber, CA (4.4 miles), Calexico, CA (8.6 miles), Seeley, CA (9.0 miles), Holtville, CA (12.4 miles), Brawley, CA (13.1 miles), Westmorland, CA (17.8 miles), Calipatria, CA (23.6 miles).
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