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Watsonville
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city in Santa Cruz County, California, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- California
- County
- Santa Cruz
- Incorporated
- March 30, 1868 ( 1868-03-30 )
- Type
- Council–manager
- Total
- 6.80 sq mi (17.62 km )
- Land
- 6.71 sq mi (17.37 km )
- Water
- 0.097 sq mi (0.25 km ) 1.41%
- Elevation
- 30 ft (9 m)
- Density
- 7,841/sq mi (3,027.5/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-8 ( Pacific )
- Summer dst
- UTC-7 (PDT)
- Zip codes
- 95076, 95077
- Fips code
- 06-83668
- Gnis feature ids
- 1660138 , 2412194
- Website
- cityofwatsonville .org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Watsonville is a city in Santa Cruz County, California, in the Monterey Bay Area of the Central Coast of California. The population was 52,590 at the 2020 census. Predominantly Latino and Democratic, Watsonville is a self-designated sanctuary city.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Watsonville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.