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Cahuilla County was a proposed county initiated by the residents of eastern Riverside County, California, in the 1980s. It was named after the Cahuilla people, being the homeland of the Native American Tribe for over 2,000 years.[1]
The proposed county would have included the Coachella Valley including the cities of:
- Palm Springs
- Desert Hot Springs
- Cathedral City
- Rancho Mirage
- Palm Desert
- Indian Wells
- La Quinta
- Indio
- Coachella
- Blythe
The ballot measure was ultimately defeated.
- ^ "California Indians and Their Reservations. SDSU Library and Information Access. (retrieved 12 Dec 2009) Archived June 13, 2010, at the Wayback Machine