Gonzales
Gonzales is a city in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, it has a population of 12,231. Known as the "Jambalaya Capital of the World", it is famous for its annual Jambalaya Festival, which was first held in 1968.
- Type: Town with 12,200 residents
- Description: city in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Also known as: “Gonzales (Luisiana)”, “Gonzales, LA”, “Gonzales, Louisiana”, and “Гонзалес (Луизиана)”
- Postal codes: 70707 and 70737
Places of Interest
Highlights: East Ascension High School and Saint Elizabeth Hospital.
Saint Elizabeth Hospital
Hospital
Our Lady of the Lake Ascension, formerly St. Saint Elizabeth Hospital is situated 2 miles south of Gonzales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St. Amant and Sorrento.
St. Amant
Hamlet
St. Amant is an unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, in Louisiana. St. Amant is situated 3 miles east of Gonzales.
Sorrento
Town
Sorrento is a town in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. Sorrento is situated 5 miles southeast of Gonzales.
Prairieville
Town
Gonzales
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Ascension, Louisiana, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
30.23853° or 30° 14′ 19″ north
Longitude
-90.9201° or 90° 55′ 12″ west
Population
12,200
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US GNZ
Open location code
862F63QH+CX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Gonzales” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غونزاليس”
- Basque: “Gonzales”
- Catalan: “Gonzales”
- Cebuano: “Gonzales”
- Chechen: “Гонсалес”
- Chinese: “冈萨雷斯”
- Danish: “Gonzales”
- Dutch: “Gonzales”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جونزاليس”
- French: “Gonzales”
- French: “Gonzalès”
- German: “Gonzales”
- Gilaki: “گونزالس (لۊئيزيانا)”
- Gilaki: “گونزالس”
- Haitian: “Gonzales, Lwizyana”
- Haitian: “Gonzales”
- Hebrew: “גונזאלס”
- Irish: “Gonzales”
- Italian: “Gonzales”
- Ladin: “Gonzales”
- Mazanderani: “گونزالس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gonzales”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gonzales”
- Norwegian: “Gonzales”
- Persian: “گنزالیس”
- Persian: “گونزالس، لوئیزیانا”
- Persian: “گونزالس”
- Polish: “Gonzales”
- Portuguese: “Gonzales”
- Russian: “Гонзалес”
- Serbian: “Гонзалес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gonzales, Louisiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gonzales”
- South Azerbaijani: “قونزالس، لوئیزیانا”
- Spanish: “Gonzales”
- Swedish: “Gonzales, Louisiana”
- Swedish: “Gonzales”
- Tatar: “Гонсалес”
- Turkish: “Gonzales, Louisiana”
- Turkish: “Gonzales”
- Ukrainian: “Гонсалес”
- Urdu: “گونزالیس، لوزیانا”
- Uzbek: “Gonzales”
- Volapük: “Gonzales”
- Welsh: “Gonzales, Louisiana”
- Welsh: “Gonzales”
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