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Salton City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Imperial County, California. It is the largest Imperial County development on the Salton Sea coast. It is part of the El Centro, California Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The Salton Sea had some success as a resort area, with Salton City, Salton Sea Beach, and Desert Shores, on the western shore and Desert Beach, North Shore, and Bombay Beach, built on the eastern shore in the 1950s. Due to the increasing salinity and pollution of the lake over the years from agricultural runoff and other sources, the ...
Salton Sink −66 m (−217 ft) 9: Salton City, California: United States: −38 m (−125 ft) Salton Sink, −66 m (−217 ft) 10= Brawley, California: United States: −37 m (−121 ft) Salton Sink, −66 m (−217 ft) 10= Thermal, California: United States: −37 m (−121 ft) Salton Sink, −66 m (−217 ft) 12: Coachella, California ...
Slab City is located on roughly 640 acres (260 hectares) of public land, [9] near the east shore of the Salton Sea.It is 100 miles (160 kilometers) northeast of San Diego, 169 mi (272 km) southeast of Los Angeles and about 50 mi (80 km) from Mexico. [10]
The Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge is located 40 miles (64 km) north of the Mexican border at the southern end of the Salton Sea in California's Imperial Valley. Situated along the Pacific Flyway , the refuge is the only one of its kind, located 227 feet (69 m) below sea level.
Lake Cahuilla was a prehistoric lake in northern Mexico and California. It disappeared around 1580, according to World Atlas. What now remains is the vestigial Salton Sea after the draining of the ...
Imperial Valley can loosely categorize its cities and communities into three regions: the Salton Beach Towns, Desert Cities, and the El Centro area (urbanized Imperial). The Salton Sea Beach Towns have the smallest cities but were resorts in their heyday and have since shrunk in population and size due to the current state of the Salton Sea.
Audubon California, meanwhile, is advocating for improved infrastructure at various locations around the sea to be included in the state’s ongoing work, through the Salton Sea Management Program ...