Riverside County Fair And National Date Festival
The Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival takes place in Indio, California. Since 1947 the annual festival has been held to celebrate the Date Palm harvest in the Coachella Valley. The event is held in February on the Riverside County Fairgrounds. The Coachella Valley has about 250,000 date palms planted on approximately which produces 35,000,000 pounds of dates annually. The agricultural industry is responsible for 95 percent of the nation's crop. The Date Festival has more than 7000 exhibits and competitions related to the fruit. It has grown to feature musicians and comedians, a Date Festival Queen and her court, monster trucks and bull-riding. The Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival is located in Indio, California, a city in the Colorado Desert, approximately east from Los Angeles. Fair patrollers include security guards, the Indio Police and Riverside County Sheriff's Office. History The Fair started as a festival to celebrate the end of the annual ...
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Indio, California
Indio (Spanish language, Spanish for "Indian") is a city in Riverside County, California, Riverside County, California, United States, in the Coachella Valley of Southern California's Colorado Desert region. It lies east of Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs, east of Riverside, California, Riverside, east of Los Angeles, 148 miles (238 km) northeast of San Diego, and 250 miles (402 km) west of Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix. The population was 89,137 in the 2020 United States Census, up from 76,036 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, an increase of 17%. Indio is the most populous city in the Coachella Valley, and was formerly referred to as the Hub of the Valley after a Chamber of Commerce slogan used in the 1970s. It was later nicknamed the City of Festivals, a reference to the numerous cultural events held in the city, most notably the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. History Indio was originally inhabited by the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla ...
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