Coachella Valley

(kō'əchĕl`ə), arid region, SE Calif., N of the Salton Sea. Water is brought into the region by artesian wells and by the Coachella Canal (123 mi/198 km long), a branch of the All-American CanalAll-American Canal,
80 mi (129 km) long, SE Calif.; part of the federal irrigation system of the Hoover Dam. Built between 1934 and 1940 across the Colorado Desert, the canal is entirely within the United States and replaces the Inter-California Canal, which passes through
..... Click the link for more information. built between 1938 and 1948; more than 100,000 acres (40,500 hectares) have been irrigated. Truck crops, dates (the majority of U.S. production), citrus fruits, and alfalfa are grown in the region. The products are shipped from the city of Coachella, in the valley's south, which serves as a distribution point for the valley. The valley also includes such resort communities as Palm Springs and Palm Desert; the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is held in Indio.

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LOS ANGELES -- Drive two hours east of downtown L.A., and you'll hit the Coachella Valley — home to such cities as Palm Springs and Indio.

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W Hotels, a Marriott International luxury brand, set up four luxury yurts designed to resemble W hotel suites from around the world at this year's Coachella Valley Music Festival taking place in California, USA.

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The festival takes its name from the Coachella Valley in which Palm Springs and neighbour Desert Springs are found.

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Spring is a fabulous time to visit Palm Springs, Calif., all the more so because the world famous Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival takes place nearby.

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Beginning in July 2015, SLEV activity was detected in mosquito pools, and sentinel chicken seroconversions were detected in the Coachella Valley in Riverside County, California.

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ROGER WATERS repurposed a classic Pink Floyd symbol with a current political message on the final day of the Desert Trip festival at the Empire Polo Club in the Coachella Valley.

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This purchase marks the fourth acquisition in the Coachella Valley for Bank of Southern California, who acquired the La Quintaand Palm Springs branches of Palm Desert National Bank in December 2010, the Palm Desert branch of AmericanWest Bank in January 2014, and the El Paseo-Palm Desert and Rancho Mirage branches of Frontier Bank dba El Paseo Bank in December 2014.

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After SXSW I did get a quiet week on emails and it was the Coachella Valley Music Festival week, which makes me think that the industry decided to go to the California festival instead of SXSW this year.

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FestiFi has provided Wi-Fi for such major events as Super Bowl 50, Sundance Film Festival and Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

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The first quarter of 2016 would see the debut of a new home-shopping channel with a studio in the Coachella Valley. Rather than sell skin-care products and compact blenders, this new channel--called Gun TV--would trade exclusively in firearms.