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Indio

Indio began as an Indian village – a winter home for the Native American people who regularly migrated from the surrounding mountains in the winter to the to the palm oases along the San Andreas Fault zone in the Indio Hills. Their villages were located on both sides of the Coachella Valley and along the shores of ancient Lake Cahuilla, which was filled periodically by the Colorado River. The lake would remain for an unknown number of years, then would gradually dry up as the river changed its course and flowed out to the Gulf of California again. The present day Salton Sea fills a portion of that same depression.

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