El Portal
El Portal is a census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States. It is located 11.5 miles west-southwest of Yosemite Village, at an elevation of 1,939 feet. The population was 372 at the 2020 census, down from 474 at the 2010 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 474 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, United States
- Also known as: “El Portal, CA” and “El Portal, California”
- Postal code: 95318
Places of Interest
Highlights include El Portal Elementary School and Bagby Stationhouse, Water Tanks and Turntable.
Bagby Stationhouse, Water Tanks and Turntable
Building
Photo: Epolk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bagby Stationhouse, Water Tanks and Turntable are associated with the Yosemite Valley Railroad, which ran from Merced, California to El Portal at the entrance to Yosemite National Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yosemite West and Foresta.
Yosemite West
Yosemite West is a small community in Mariposa County, California, is accessed via roads in Yosemite National Park. It is bordered on the west by Sierra National Forest.
Foresta
Hamlet
Foresta is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Mariposa County, California, within Yosemite National Park. Foresta is situated 2½ miles northeast of El Portal.
Incline
Hamlet
Incline is an unincorporated community in Mariposa County, California. It is located on the south bank of the Merced River and on the Yosemite Valley Railroad 4 miles west-southwest of El Portal, at an elevation of 1519 feet. Incline is situated 4 miles west of El Portal.
El Portal
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Mariposa County, Sierra Nevada, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.6747° or 37° 40′ 29″ northLongitude
-119.7841° or 119° 47′ 3″ westPopulation
474Elevation
1,939 feet (591 metres)United Nations Location Code
US EPQOpen location code
8592M6F8+V9OpenStreetMap ID
node 150977105OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“El Portal” goes by many names.
- Basque: “El Portal”
- Cebuano: “El Portal”
- Chechen: “Ель-Портал”
- Chinese: “El Portal”
- Chinese: “埃爾波托爾”
- Croatian: “El Portal”
- Dutch: “El Portal”
- French: “El Portal (Californie)”
- French: “El Portal”
- German: “El Portal”
- Gilaki: “ال پؤرتال”
- Irish: “El Portal”
- Italian: “El Portal”
- Ladin: “El Portal”
- Min Nan Chinese: “El Portal”
- Persian: “ال پورتال، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “ال پورتال”
- Polish: “El Portal”
- Serbian: “Ел Портал”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Portal, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “El Portal”
- South Azerbaijani: “ال پورتال، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “El Portal (California)”
- Spanish: “El Portal”
- Tatar: “Ель-Портал”
- Turkish: “El Portal”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Портал”
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