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Coronado
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city in San Diego County, California, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- California
- County
- San Diego
- Incorporated
- December 11, 1890
- Type
- Mayor-council
- Mayor
- John Duncan
- Total
- 32.50 sq mi (84.17 km )
- Land
- 7.81 sq mi (20.22 km )
- Water
- 24.70 sq mi (63.96 km ) 75.72%
- Elevation
- 16 ft (5 m)
- Density
- 2,586.9/sq mi (998.82/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-8 ( Pacific )
- Summer dst
- UTC-7 ( PDT )
- Zip codes
- 92118, 92178
- Fips code
- 06-16378
- Gnis feature ids
- 1660513 , 2410233
- Website
- www .coronado .ca .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Coronado
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- San Diego County
- Population
- 20192
- Area
- 84.603462
- Elevation
- 5
- Time zone
- Pacific Time Zone
- Official website
- www.coronado.ca.us
- Image
- Hotel del Coronado.JPG
- Households
- 8672
- Dialing code
- 619
- Licence plate code
- 619
Show 12 more facts
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Coronado, California
- P12749
- Günther Hadank
- Commons category
- Coronado, California
- topic's main category
- Category:Coronado, California
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Coronado, California
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Coronado, California
- postal code
- 92178
- water as percent of area
- 75.7205
- P8168
- Khentii Province
- water area
- 64.062177
- per capita income
- 63696
- date of incorporation
- 1890-12-11
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Encyclopedic overview
Coronado (Spanish for "Crowned") is a resort city in San Diego County, California, United States, across San Diego Bay from downtown San Diego. It was founded in the 1880s and incorporated in 1890. Its population was 20,192 in 2020.
Coronado is a tied island which is connected to the mainland by a tombolo (a sandy isthmus) called Silver Strand. Along the coast of Southern California lie four islands that were spotted by Sebastian Vizcaino and his crew. They named them "Los Coronados". In the mid-1880s, businessmen bought the peninsula near Los Coronados with hopes to turn it into a resort. Later in 1886, the owners of this peninsula hosted a naming contest with the people resulting in the name "Miramar" winning, which was soon overturned due to the public not being satisfied with the name, so they borrowed from their cousin islands "Los Coronados" and named it "Coronado". Coronado is the Spanish term for "crowned" and thus it is nicknamed The Crown City. Its name is derived from the Coronado Islands, an offshore Mexican archipelago.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Coronado” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.