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Chula Vista, city, San Diego county, southern California, U.S. Chula Vista lies on the eastern shore of San Diego Bay, south of San Diego and just north of Tijuana, Mexico. Once the territory of the Kumeyaay Indians, the area now known as Chula Vista was claimed by the Spanish, the Mexicans, and then, with California’s statehood (1850), the Americans. The city was laid out in 1888 by the Santa Fe Railway and named for its “pretty view.” The completion of the Sweetwater Dam brought water to the city and spurred its development as a citrus centre; it was, for a ...(100 of 197 words)

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