Indio, California

Indio is a city in central Riverside County, California, in the United States, in the Coachella Valley of the Colorado Desert region of Southern California. The name is Spanish for Indian. It lies about 125 miles east of Los Angeles, 23 miles east of Palm Springs and 98 miles west of Blythe. The 2020 census counted 89,137 residents, up from 76,036 in 2010, and Indio is the most populous city in the Coachella Valley. It was once called the Hub of the Valley and is now nicknamed the City of Festivals because of events such as the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the Stagecoach Festival. It is the principal city of the Indio, Palm Desert and Palm Springs urban area, which had 361,075 people in 2020.