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Welcome To Riverside County, California
Riverside County is a county
located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California, stretching from Orange County to the Colorado River, which is the border
with Arizona.
This county is part of
the Riverside-San Bernardino Area, in
a region of Southern California known as the Inland Empire.
The population of Riverside County was 1,545,387 in 2000, and the 2006
population has been estimated at 2,070,315[1]. The county seat is the city of Riverside.
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Geographically, the county is desert.
Most of Joshua Tree National Park is located
in the county. Riverside County lies inland of Los
Angeles, and south of San Bernardino. Large numbers of
Los Angeles workers have moved to the county in recent years to take advantage
of relatively affordable housing. Alongside neighboring San Bernardino
County, it is one of the fastest growing parts of the Inland Empire. This
spawned a wave of toll road construction in the area in the 1990s, starting with the addition of toll commuter lanes
to the State Route 91 freeway, the main
traffic artery to the western metropolitan area. In addition, smaller, but
significant, numbers of people have been moving into southern Riverside County
from the San Diego metropolitan area. The towns of Temecula and Murrieta account for 20% of increase in
population of Riverside County between 2000 and 2007.
Such famous golf resorts as Indian Wells, La
Quinta, Rancho Mirage, Palm
Springs and Palm Desert are located in Riverside
County. Indio
is the center of an important date growing region.
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