El Centro

El Centro is the largest city in in . Its name is Spanish for "the center".
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 (California)”, “El Centro, CA”, “El Centro, California”, “El Centro, क्यालिफोर्निया”, “Ел Cентро”, “Эль-Сэнтра”, “एल सेन्ट्रो (क्यालिफोर्निया)”, “엘 센트로”, “エルセントロ”, “亞仙度”, and “亞路仙度”
  • Postal codes: 92243 and 92244

Places of Interest

Highlights: Douthitt Strip and Central Union High School.

Aerodrome
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
is a privately owned, private use…

School
is a 4 year public secondary…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Imperial.

is a city in , 4 miles north of El Centro.

El Centro

Latitude
32.792° or 32° 47′ 31″ north
Longitude
-115.5631° or 115° 33′ 47″ west
Population
44,300
Elevation
-39 feet (-12 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US ECO
Open location code
8546QCRP+RQ
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID
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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”
  • Bengali: “এল কেন্ট্রো”
  • Bulgarian: “Ел Сентро”
  • Catalan: “El Centro”
  • Cebuano: “El Centro”
  • Chechen: “Эль-Сентро”
  • 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”
  • Kannada: “ಎಲ್ ಸೆಂಟ್ರೊ”
  • Korean: “엘센트로”
  • Ladin: “El Centro”
  • Latvian: “Elcentro”
  • Lithuanian: “El Centras”
  • 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: “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”
  • Romanian: “El Centro, California”
  • Romanian: “El Centro”
  • Russian: “Эль-Сентро”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “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”
  • 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”
  • 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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