Guatay (
Kumeyaay: ''Na-wa Ti'e'', meaning "Big House") is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in the
Cuyamaca Mountains, in the
Mountain Empire area of
southeastern San Diego County, California
San Diego County (), officially the County of San Diego, is a county (United States), county in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of California, north to its Mexico-United States border, border with Mexico. As of the 2020 United States Cen ...
.
Geography
The town's elevation is 3,999 feet (1,219 m).
Although Guatay is unincorporated, it does not have a
post office
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. The
ZIP Code is 91931.
It was the location of a 19th-century
stagecoach
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station on the
San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line.
Nearby Guatay Mountain, a peak of the Cuyamaca Mountains, is home to a grove of the rare
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
Tecate Cypress (''Cupressus forbesii'').
Transportation
San Diego MTS route 888 provides service on Mondays and Fridays between
El Cajon, Guatay, and
Jacumba Hot Springs.
[https://www.sdmts.com/sites/default/files/routes/pdf/888.pdf]
References
Unincorporated communities in San Diego County, California
Cuyamaca Mountains
San Antonio–San Diego Mail Line
Unincorporated communities in California
Stagecoach stops in the United States
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