Santa Nella

Santa Nella is a town of about 2,000 people in in . It's best known as a major rest stop on Interstate 5 and as the home of the iconic Danish-American diner Pea Soup Andersen's.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 2,210 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Merced County, California, United States
  • Also known as: Centinela”, “Santa Nella Village”, “Santa Nella, CA”, and “Santa Nella, California

Places of Interest

Highlights include O’Neill Forebay.

Reservoir
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
O'Neill Forebay is a forebay to the created by the construction of across approximately 12 miles west of , , on the eastern slopes of the of .

Santa Nella

Latitude
37.0977° or 37° 5′ 52″ north
Longitude
-121.0169° or 121° 1′ 1″ west
Population
2,210
Elevation
154 feet (47 metres)
Open location code
849W3XXM+37
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150939048
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5393244
Wiki­data ID
Q3458718
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Volapük—“Santa Nella” goes by many names.
  • Basque: Santa Nella
  • Chechen: Санта-Нелла
  • Chinese: 聖內拉
  • Croatian: Santa Nella
  • Dutch: Santa Nella
  • French: Santa Nella
  • German: Santa Nella
  • Gilaki: سانتا نلا
  • Irish: Santa Nella
  • Italian: Santa Nella
  • Ladin: Santa Nella
  • Persian: سانتا نلا، کالیفرنیا
  • Persian: سانتا نلا
  • Polish: Santa Nella
  • Serbian: Санта Нела
  • Serbo-Croatian: Santa Nella, California
  • Serbo-Croatian: Santa Nella
  • South Azerbaijani: سانتا نلا، کالیفورنیا
  • Spanish: Santa Nella
  • Tatar: Санта-Нелла
  • Turkish: Santa Nella
  • Ukrainian: Санта-Нелла
  • Volapük: Santa Nella

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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 Wikivoyage page “Santa Nella”. Photo: Cristiano Tomás, CC BY-SA 4.0.