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unusual facts about El Centro



Blue Angels Peak

The peak was named in honor of the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, which was based at a nearby naval air facility in El Centro.

Bonds Corner, California

Bonds Corner (formerly, Bends Corner) is an unincorporated community in Imperial County, California a short distance east of El Centro and north of the international border with Baja California.

Friedkin Airlines

The first customer was flown by J. Floyd Andrews (who later became the president of the successor Pacific Southwest Airlines) to El Centro.

XHILA-TDT

It broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 46, serving the Mexicali Valley and the southern Imperial Valley, including El Centro, California, and the Colorado River cities of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora and Yuma, Arizona.


see also

KXO

KXO-FM, a radio station (107.5 FM) licensed to El Centro, California, United States

Starkfield

Stark Field, professional-size baseball field located in El Centro, California