Imperial County Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
county in California, United States
About Imperial County
The Imperial Valley was settled as a farming community in the early 1900s, and has remained a primary producer of winter vegetables and an area filled with cattle feedlots. Flooding from the Colorado River has wiped out the valley a number of times in the early part of the 20th century; now a series of canals controls the water flow. The flooding produced the Salton Sea, a large alkaline lake that nearly bisects the entire county. The soil is fertile but highly alkaline. The watershed drains to theSalton Sea; the entire area was once underwater as the Gulf of California. The area newspaper is theImperial Valley Press.
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