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Indio is the most populous city in Riverside County's Coachella Valley and is nicknamed the "City of Festivals" for the major events it hosts every year.

Indio began in 1876 as a Southern Pacific Railroad stop halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona; it was first called Indian Wells and was renamed Indio, Spanish for "Indian," in 1877.

The townsite of Indio was laid out in 1894 by A. G. Tingman, the town's first storekeeper and postmaster.

Indio incorporated on May 16, 1930, making it the first city incorporated in the Coachella Valley.

The 2020 census counted 89,137 residents in Indio, up from 76,036 in 2010 and just 49,116 in 2000, and Census figures put the city at about 31,250 households.

Indio City Hall sits 14 feet below sea level in the below-sea-level eastern Coachella Valley.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture date station was established in Indio in 1907, and the city remains famous for dates: Shields Date Garden is a landmark attraction, and the Coachella Valley History Museum in Indio houses the world's only date museum.

Every February, Indio hosts the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival, celebrating the valley's date harvest.

Since 1999, the Empire Polo Club in Indio has hosted the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, one of the world's most famous music festivals, drawing about 125,000 people a day across two April weekends.

Indio also hosts the Stagecoach Festival, California's signature country music festival, and each December the Indio International Tamale Festival, the largest tamale festival in the United States.