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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 12,200 residents
- Description: city in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Also known as: “Gonzales, LA” and “Gonzales, Louisiana”
- Postal codes: 70707 and 70737
Places of Interest
Highlights include East Ascension High School and Saint Elizabeth Hospital.
East Ascension High School
School
East Ascension High School, commonly referred to as EA, is a public high school in Gonzales, Louisiana, United States. It is managed by the Ascension Parish School Board.
Saint Elizabeth Hospital
Hospital
Our Lady of the Lake Ascension, formerly St. Elizabeth Hospital, is a 78-bed Catholic community hospital in Gonzales, Louisiana, serving Ascension Parish. 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. It is situated about 25 miles south-east of Baton Rouge and 50 miles northwest of New Orleans. St. Amant is situated 3 miles east of Gonzales.
Sorrento
Town
Sorrento is a town in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,514 in 2020. It is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area. Sorrento is situated 5 miles southeast of Gonzales.
Prairieville
Town
Photo: Z28scrambler, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prairieville is a census-designated place in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is south of Baton Rouge and north of Gonzales. Prairieville is an expanding bedroom suburb of Baton Rouge. Prairieville is situated 5 miles north of Gonzales.
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″ northLongitude
-90.9201° or 90° 55′ 12″ westPopulation
12,200Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)United Nations Location Code
US GNZOpen location code
862F63QH+CXOpenStreetMap ID
node 151908714OpenStreetMap 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: “Gonzales”
- 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 (Луизиана)”
- Russian: “Гонзалес”
- Russian: “Гонсалес”
- Serbian: “Гонзалес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gonzales, Louisiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gonzales”
- South Azerbaijani: “قونزالس، لوئیزیانا”
- Spanish: “Gonzales (Luisiana)”
- Spanish: “Gonzales”
- Swedish: “Gonzales, Louisiana”
- Swedish: “Gonzales”
- Tatar: “Гонсалес”
- Turkish: “Gonzales, Louisiana”
- Turkish: “Gonzales”
- Ukrainian: “Гонсалес”
- Uzbek: “Gonzales”
- Volapük: “Gonzales”
- Welsh: “Gonzales, Louisiana”
- Welsh: “Gonzales”
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