Chualar (Chualar)
Chualar (Spanish for "Pigweed grove") is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in the Salinas Valley of Monterey County, California, United States. Chualar is located 10 mi southeast of Salinas, at an elevation of 115 ft. The population was 1,185 at the 2020 census.
Chualar is located in northeastern Monterey County at 36.57056°N, -121.51861°W. U.S. Route 101 runs along the southwest side of the community, leading northwest to Salinas and southeast 16 mi to Soledad.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.6 sqmi, all of it land.
In her Spanish and Indian Place Names of California (1914), Sanchez states that chualar was the indigenous word for an abundant and native goosefoot. This plant could possibly be Chenopodium californicum, the California goosefoot (also known as pigweed). In his 1500 California Place Names (1998), William Bright writes that the name is Spanish for "where the chual grows," chual being Mexican Spanish for pigweed or goosefoot, and derived ultimately from Nahuatl tzoalli.
Chualar is located in northeastern Monterey County at 36.57056°N, -121.51861°W. U.S. Route 101 runs along the southwest side of the community, leading northwest to Salinas and southeast 16 mi to Soledad.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.6 sqmi, all of it land.
In her Spanish and Indian Place Names of California (1914), Sanchez states that chualar was the indigenous word for an abundant and native goosefoot. This plant could possibly be Chenopodium californicum, the California goosefoot (also known as pigweed). In his 1500 California Place Names (1998), William Bright writes that the name is Spanish for "where the chual grows," chual being Mexican Spanish for pigweed or goosefoot, and derived ultimately from Nahuatl tzoalli.
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