El Centro
El Centro is the largest city in Imperial County in California. Its name is Spanish for "the center".| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: City with 44,300 residents
- Description: city in and county seat of Imperial County, California, United States
- Also known as: “El Centro, CA” and “El Centro, California”
- Postal codes: 92243 and 92244
Places of Interest
Highlights include Douthitt Strip and Central Union High School.
Douthitt Strip
Aerodrome
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
Douthitt Strip is a privately owned, private use airport located one nautical mile east of the central business district of El Centro, a city in Imperial County, California, United States.
Central Union High School
School
Photo: Jacob51515, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Central Union High School, also known as Central or CUHS, is a four-year public high school in El Centro, California, United States with a diverse student body of more than 1,910 students. It is one of three schools in the Central Union High School District.
Southwest High School
School
Southwest High School is a 4 year public high school in El Centro, California that serves approximately 2,085 students to its diverse population. Southwest is one of the 3 high schools within the Central Union High School District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Imperial.
Imperial
Photo: JacobSA2019, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Imperial is a city in Imperial County, California, 4 miles north of El Centro. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 20,263. It is part of the El Centro metropolitan area.
El Centro
- Categories: city in the United States, charter city, county seat, and locality
- Location: Imperial County, Desert, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.792° or 32° 47′ 31″ northLongitude
-115.5631° or 115° 33′ 47″ westPopulation
44,300Elevation
-39 feet (-12 metres)United Nations Location Code
US ECOOpen location code
8546QCRP+RQOpenStreetMap ID
node 150965029OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“El Centro” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “El Centro, California”
- Albanian: “El Centro”
- Arabic: “إل سنترو”
- Armenian: “Էլ Սենթրո”
- Asturian: “El Centro”
- Azerbaijani: “El-Sentro”
- Basque: “El Centro”
- Belarusian: “Эль Сэнтра”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Сентра”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Сэнтра”
- Bengali: “এল কেন্ট্রো”
- Bulgarian: “Ел Сентро”
- Catalan: “El Centro”
- Cebuano: “El Centro”
- Chechen: “Эль-Сентро”
- Chinese: “El Centro”
- Chinese: “亞仙度”
- Chinese: “亞路仙度”
- Chinese: “埃尔森特罗”
- Chinese: “埃爾森特羅”
- Croatian: “El Centro”
- Czech: “El Centro”
- Dagbani: “El Centro”
- Danish: “El Centro”
- Dutch: “El Centro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ال سنترو”
- Esperanto: “El Centro”
- Esperanto: “La Centro”
- Finnish: “El Centro”
- French: “El Centro”
- Georgian: “ელ-სენტრო”
- German: “El Centro”
- Gilaki: “ال سنترؤ”
- Greek: “Ελ Σέντρο”
- Gujarati: “અલ સેન્ટ્રો”
- Haitian: “El Centro, Kalifòni”
- Haitian: “El Centro”
- Hebrew: “אל סנטרו”
- Hindi: “एल सेंट्रो”
- Hungarian: “El Centro”
- Indonesian: “El Centro”
- Irish: “El Centro”
- Italian: “El Centro”
- Japanese: “エル・セントロ”
- Japanese: “エルセントロ”
- Kannada: “ಎಲ್ ಸೆಂಟ್ರೊ”
- Korean: “엘 센트로”
- Korean: “엘센트로”
- Ladin: “El Centro”
- Latvian: “Elcentro”
- Lithuanian: “El Centras”
- Lithuanian: “El Centro”
- Lithuanian: “El Sentras”
- Luxembourgish: “El Centro”
- Malagasy: “El Centro, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “El Centro”
- Malay: “El Centro”
- Malayalam: “എൽ സെൻട്രോ”
- Marathi: “अल सेंट्रो”
- Mazanderani: “ال سنترو (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “ال سنترو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “El Centro”
- Navajo: “Séítah Dáʼákʼeh”
- Newari: “El Centro, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “एल सेन्ट्रो (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
- Newari: “एल सेन्ट्रो, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “एल सेन्ट्रो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Centro”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “El Centro”
- Norwegian: “El Centro”
- Occitan (post 1500): “El Centro”
- Pampanga: “El Centro, California”
- Pampanga: “El Centro”
- Persian: “ال سنترو، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “ال سنترو”
- Polish: “El Centro”
- Portuguese: “El Centro”
- Russian: “Эль-Сентро”
- Scottish Gaelic: “El Centro”
- Serbian: “El Centro”
- Serbian: “El Sentro”
- Serbian: “Ел Сентро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Centro, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Centro”
- Silesian: “El Centro”
- Sinhala: “එල් සෙන්ට්රෝ”
- Slovak: “El Centro”
- Slovenian: “El Centro”
- South Azerbaijani: “ال سنترو، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “El Centro (California)”
- Spanish: “El Centro”
- Swedish: “El Centro”
- Tagalog: “El Centro, California”
- Tagalog: “El Centro”
- Tajik: “Эл-Сентро”
- Tamil: “எல் சென்ட்ரோ”
- Tatar: “Эль-Сентро”
- Telugu: “ఎల్ సెంట్రో”
- Thai: “เอลเซนโคตร”
- Turkish: “El Centro, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “El Centro”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Сентро”
- Urdu: “ال سینترو”
- Urdu: “ایل سینٹرو، کیلیفورنیا”
- Uzbek: “El Centro”
- Uzbek: “Ел Cентро”
- Vietnamese: “El Centro”
- Volapük: “El Centro”
- Waray (Philippines): “El Centro, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “El Centro”
- Wu Chinese: “埃尔森特罗 (加利福尼亚州)”
- Wu Chinese: “埃尔森特罗（加利福尼亚州）”
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