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Tequesta is an incorporated village in Palm Beach County and is the northernmost municipality in the Miami metropolitan area.

Tequesta was founded in the 1950s as a planned community centered on the Tequesta Country Club, developed by Charles Martyn, and the village was incorporated in 1957.

Tequesta was named for the Tequesta people, the Indigenous inhabitants of the area, whose history developer Charles Martyn researched after his crews unearthed an Indian mound while excavating the nearby Jupiter Inlet Colony site.

Tequesta had a population of 6,158 at the 2020 census, up from 5,629 in 2010 - a dramatic rise from the just 199 residents counted at the 1960 census, three years after incorporation.

Tequesta had 2,675 households at the 2020 census, with 3,225 housing units, of which 17.1% stood vacant, reflecting its many seasonal and second homes.

Tequesta's median age was 51.4 at the 2020 census, and 29.1% of its residents were 65 years of age or older.

Tequesta covers just 2.25 square miles, about a fifth of it water; most of the village sits on the mainland along the Loxahatchee River near Jupiter Inlet, but parts lie across the water on Jupiter Island in Martin County, around county-owned Coral Cove Park.

Tequesta's public school students are zoned to schools in the neighboring town of Jupiter, including Jupiter Community High School, while the village itself has the private Good Shepherd Episcopal School.

Tequesta is the city of license for WPBF, the West Palm Beach area's ABC television affiliate, and notable past and present residents have included Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath and actor Burt Reynolds.