Chula Vista
Chula Vista | |
---|---|
Nickname : The City of Allure, Chula-juana | |
Top to bottom, left to right: Chula Vista Bayfront, Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, HMS Surprise (replica), Third Avenue in Downtown |
|
seal |
flag |
Location in San Diego County | |
Basic data | |
Foundation : | 1911 |
State : | United States |
State : | California |
County : | San Diego County |
Coordinates : | 32 ° 38 ′ N , 117 ° 2 ′ W |
Time zone : | Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 ) |
Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
243,916 (as of 2010) 5,105,768 (as of 2010) |
Population density : | 1,926.7 inhabitants per km 2 |
Area : | 132.7 km 2 (approx. 51 mi 2 ) of which 126.6 km 2 (approx. 49 mi 2 ) is land |
Height : | 21 m |
Postcodes : | 91909-91915, 91921 |
Area code : | +1 619 |
FIPS : | 06-13392 |
GNIS ID : | 1660481 |
Website : | www.chulavistaca.gov |
Mayor : | Mary Salas |
Chula Vista (from Spanish for beautiful view ) is the second largest city in San Diego County in the US state of California with 243,916 inhabitants on an area of 132.7 km². The city is located on Interstates 5 and 805, and California State Route 54 .
geography
Geographical location
Chula Vista is located about eleven kilometers from central San Diego and eleven kilometers from the Mexican border. The city is bordered by the San Diego Bay to the west and the Jamul and San Ysidro Mountains to the east. In the north the Sweetwater River and in the south the Otay River form the natural boundaries of the urban area. The city is bordered by San Diego to the north and south (San Diego is divided into two parts by Chula Vista).
history
The area of today's Chula Vista was inhabited by the Kumeyaay Indians for a long time . In 1542, three ships under the command of the Portuguese Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, who was in Spanish service, reached Point Loma near San Diego. Cabrillo was the first European to go ashore and declared his discovery to be in possession of the Spanish crown. This also made the area of Chula Vista Spanish. In 1795 Chula Vista became part of the Spanish land allotment and was named Rancho del Rey ( King's Ranch ). After Mexico gained independence from Spain, the area was named Rancho de la Nación ( National Ranch ). The ranch owned cattle and horses and used the land of today's Chula Vista as pasture. In 1850, the United States incorporated California as the 31st state, making the Chula Vista area American.
In the 1880s, the San Diego Land and Town Company began selling small pieces of the ranch to settlers. The five- acre parcels cost 1,500 S-Dollars in 1887. The buyer undertook to build a house on his parcel within six months. By 1889 ten houses were under construction and the development of Chula Vista town began. The name Chula Vista was suggested by one of the first residents, James D. Schulyer, and was adopted by the San Diego Land and Town Company . In 1888, the Sweetwater Dam was completed to provide water to the town's residents and their fields. Citrus trees soon turned out to be ideal crops for the local soil. Ultimately, Chula Vista became the largest lemon growing area in the world for a while.
On October 17, 1911, the citizens of Chula Vistas voted to gain formal parish status. The state of California approved the church planting in November of that year. In February 1916, the Hercules Powder Company began planning and building a plant to produce ash from seaweed ( kelp ). The tang ash served as a source for the extraction of substances that are needed for the manufacture of explosives. The factory made potassium carbonate and acetone , which was used to make cordite . Cordite is a low-smoke gunpowder that the British Army used in World War I. During the war, Hercules produced a total of 20,838 tons of cordite for the British government. Hercules operated the world's largest seaweed harvesting fleet at the time to extract raw materials. The location of the former Hercules factory in Chula Vista is now called Gunpowder Point and serves the Chula Vista Nature Center as an exhibition and excursion area.
In early 1941, the Rohr Aircraft Corporation relocated its headquarters and production to Chula Vista. When production peaked for World War II, Rohr employed 9,000 workers in the area. With the construction of new houses for the workers, most of the orchards with the citrus trees disappeared from the cityscape. The population of Chula Vistas tripled from 5,000 in 1940 to more than 16,000 in 1950. In the decades that followed, the city expanded further east and became the second largest city in San Diego County.
politics
Town twinning
Chula Vista has partnerships with the following cities:
sons and daughters of the town
- Ray Locke MacDonald (1931 – before 2009), chemist
- Brian Maple (* 1939), solid-state physicist
- William R. Roush (* 1952), chemist
- El Vez (* 1960), Mexican-American musician and singer-songwriter, actually Robert López
- Craig Coxe (born 1964), ice hockey player
- Carmen Serano (* 1973), actress
- Jenna Presley (* 1987), American porn actress and actress
- Paul Arriola (born 1995), football player
gallery
Postcard of the Sweetwater Dam
Proctor Valley in Chula Vista
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Welcome to Chula Vista, CA - City of Allure . In: chulavistacentennial.com . Retrieved January 15, 2011.
- ↑ Bianca Bruno: Growing up in "Chula-juana" . In: The Vista , October 6, 2010. Retrieved January 23, 2011. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Anne-Marie O'Connor: Cross-Border Lifestyle Requires Patience . In: Los Angeles Times , September 11, 2002. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
- ↑ Tom Greeley: SD County's Cities Defy The Negatives, Accent The Positives . In: Los Angeles Times , April 15, 1985. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
- ^ Karen Kucher: The faces of San Diego's changing demographics . In: San Diego Union Tribune , March 8, 2011. Retrieved March 9, 2011.
- ↑ City of Chula Vista Drainage Basins (PDF; 963 kB) In: Geographic Information System . City of Chula Vista. June 20, 2009. Archived from the original on March 21, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
- ↑ a b c d Brief History of Chula Vista . City of Cula Vista. Archived from the original on November 5, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 14, 2012.