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Indio
is a city in Riverside County,
California, United States, located
in the Coachella Valley of Southern
California's Colorado Desert region.
It lies 26 miles (42 km) east of
Palm Springs, 70 miles (113 km) east
of Riverside, and 125 miles (201 km)
east of Los Angeles. It is about 86
miles (138 km) north of Mexicali,
Baja California on the U.S.-Mexican
border. The City of Indio came about
because of the need of a halfway
point for the Southern Pacific
Railroad between Yuma and Los
Angeles. The engines needed to be
cleaned of all of the sand taken in
and re-filled with water. At first,
the-would-be city was called Indian
Wells, but because of so many other
areas already called that,
Indio, after a Spanish variation of
the word “Indian” -- was chosen.
After the railroad's arrival in
1876, Indio really started to take
root. The first permanent building
was the craftsman style Southern
Pacific Depot station and hotel.
Southern Pacific tried to make life
as comfortable as it could for their
workers in order to keep them from
leaving such a difficult area to
live in at the time. It was at the
same the center of all social life
in the desert with a fancy dining
room and hosting dances on Friday
nights.
Indio
has the Riverside county's eastern
branch offices, because Indio was
historically the main population
center of the Coachella valley,
except when Palm Springs had more
people from 1955 to 1992, when the
US census announced Indio surpassed
Palm Springs and that title was
returned to them. The official
elevation of Indio is below sea
level; the city hall is 14 feet (4
m) below sea level, as the Eastern
half of the Coachella valley drops
as low as 150 feet (50 m) below sea
level (the lake shore of the Salton
Sea is 15 miles (24 km) South of
Indio).
The
climate of the Coachella Valley is
influenced by the surrounding
geography. High mountain ranges on
three sides and a south-sloping
valley floor all contribute to its
unique and year-round warm climate,
with the warmest winters in the
western United States. Indio has a
warm winter/hot summer climate: Its
average annual high temperature is
89 °F (32 °C) and average annual low
is 60 °F (16 °C) but summer highs
above 108 °F (42 °C) are common and
sometimes exceed 120 °F (49 °C),
while summer night lows often stay
above 82 °F (28 °C). Winters are
warm with daytime highs between
68–86 °F (20–30 °C).
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