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Corona is Spanish for crown or wreath.Originally called South Riverside, citizens wanted to distinguish their city from the larger city of Riverside to the north. When it came time to incorporate the city a number of different names were considered, but the name Corona was chosen to play upon a unique feature of the city, the one-mile diameter drive that circled the center of the town.
Prado Reservoir is a reservoir in northwestern Riverside County and southwestern San Bernardino County, a couple of miles west of the city of Corona, in the U.S. state of California. The reservoir has a capacity of 362,000 acre-feet (447,000,000 m 3 ) and is formed by Prado Dam on the Santa Ana River .
Prado Dam is an earth-fill dry dam across the Santa Ana River at the Chino Hills near Corona, California in Riverside County with the resulting impounded water creating Prado Flood Control Basin reservoir. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the dam in Lower Santa Ana River Canyon.
Dams and pipelines were built to carry the water to the colony. [4] By the time the U. S. Geological Survey mapped the area in 1897-98 for the Elsinore Quadrangle, California the dam and Lee Lake appear on the map. [5] Recently it has been called Corona Lake by a fishing enterprise that operates there. [6]
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Temescal Creek (shown on federal maps as Temescal Wash [1]) is an approximately 29-mile-long (47 km) [2] watercourse in Riverside County, in the U.S. state of California. Flowing primarily in a northwestern direction, it connects Lake Elsinore with the Santa Ana River .
A record-distance non-stop flight between 12 and 14 July 1937 via the North Pole, started at Moscow, covered 11,500 kilometres (7,100 mi) in 62 hours and 17 minutes and ended in a dairy pasture outside of San Jacinto, California, after the crew had encountered fog conditions in San Diego
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