Descanso
Descanso is a small unincorporated community in the Cuyamaca Mountains, within the Mountain Empire area of southeastern San Diego County, California. The community's name is a Spanish word meaning "rest from labor".| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 1,500 residents
- Description: town in California
- Also known as: “Descanso, CA” and “Descanso, California”
- Postal code: 91916
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chiquito Peak.
Chiquito Peak
Peak
Chiquito Peak is a summit in the Cuyamaca Mountains of San Diego County, California, United States. It located north of Interstate 8 and about 1.7 miles west of Descanso. Chiquito Peak is situated 1½ miles west of Descanso.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Guatay and Pine Valley.
Guatay
Hamlet
Guatay is an unincorporated community in the Cuyamaca Mountains, in the Mountain Empire area of southeastern San Diego County, California. Guatay is situated 3½ miles east of Descanso.
Pine Valley
Hamlet
Photo: Rsduhamel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pine Valley is a community and census-designated place in the Cuyamaca Mountains of the Mountain Empire area, in southeastern San Diego County, California. The population was 1,645 at the 2020 census, up from 1,510 at the 2010 census. Pine Valley is situated 5 miles southeast of Descanso.
Descanso
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: San Diego County, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.85283° or 32° 51′ 10″ northLongitude
-116.61585° or 116° 36′ 57″ westPopulation
1,500Elevation
3,392 feet (1,034 metres)United Nations Location Code
US DJCOpen location code
8545V93M+4MOpenStreetMap ID
node 150937404OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Volapük—“Descanso” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Descanso”
- Cebuano: “Descanso”
- Chechen: “Дескансо”
- Chinese: “德斯坎索”
- Croatian: “Descanso”
- Dutch: “Descanso”
- French: “Descanso”
- German: “Descanso”
- Gilaki: “دسکانسو”
- Irish: “Descanso”
- Italian: “Descanso”
- Ladin: “Descanso”
- Malagasy: “Descanso, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Descanso”
- Persian: “دسکنسو، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “دسکنسو”
- Polish: “Descanso”
- Serbian: “Дескансо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Descanso, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Descanso”
- South Azerbaijani: “دسکنسو، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Descanso”
- Swedish: “Descanso, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Descanso”
- Tatar: “Дескансо”
- Turkish: “Descanso, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Descanso”
- Ukrainian: “Дескансо”
- Volapük: “Descanso”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Descanso”. Photo: Bovlb, Public domain.