Coronado, CA

Coronado (Spanish for “Crowned”) is a beach city in San Diego County, California, United States, across San Diego Bay from downtown San Diego. It was founded in the 1880s and incorporated in 1890. Its population was 20,192 in 2020.

Coronado is a tied island which is connected to the mainland by a tombolo (a sandy isthmus) called Silver Strand. Along the coast of Southern California lie four islands that were spotted by Sebastian Vizcaino and his crew. They named them “Los Coronados”. In the mid-1880s, businessmen bought the peninsula near Los Coronados with hopes to turn it into a resort. Later in 1886, the owners of this peninsula hosted a naming contest with the people resulting in the name “Miramar” winning, which was soon overturned due to the public not being satisfied with the name, so they borrowed from their cousin islands “Los Coronados” and named it “Coronado”. Coronado is the Spanish term for “crowned” and thus it is nicknamed The Crown City. Its name is derived from the Coronado Islands, an offshore Mexican archipelago.