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Wenatchee is the county seat and most populous city of Chelan County, sitting at the confluence of the Wenatchee and Columbia rivers at the eastern foothills of the Cascade Range.

The city was named for the Wenatchi people who lived at the confluence; the name is a Sahaptin word often translated as "river which comes from canyons" or "robe of the rainbow."

Wenatchee was platted in September 1888 and incorporated as a city on January 7, 1893, when it had about 500 residents.

The 2020 census counted 35,508 people in 13,793 households in Wenatchee.

Wenatchee is known around the world as the "Apple Capital of the World" for the orchards filling its valley, a title its boosters were already promoting in the early 1900s with the slogan "Home of the World's Best Apples."

Completion of Rock Island Dam in 1936 — the first of 14 hydroelectric projects built on the Columbia River — ended Wenatchee's summer flooding and opened vast new irrigation for the valley's orchards.

Every spring the city hosts the Washington State Apple Blossom Festival, running from the last week of April into the first week of May with two parades, a food fair, and a traveling carnival.

On October 5, 1931, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon completed the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean, landing their plane Miss Veedol in the hills across the river after a 41-hour flight from Japan; the plane's propeller is displayed at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center.

A cache of Clovis stone and bone tools uncovered at the East Wenatchee Clovis Site in 1987, dated to roughly 13,000 years ago, represents the earliest known human artifacts in the Wenatchee area.

Wenatchee Valley College, a two-year community college, has its main campus in the city and a satellite campus in Omak, and Washington State University runs its Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in Wenatchee.