Santa Ana is a city in Orange County, California. It is home to the Santa Ana Zoo, with its monkeys, its mini-train and an aviary for walking. In a Mission Revival style building, the Bowers Museum displays a large collection of Native American art. The Discovery Cube of Orange County is a children's museum with hands-on science exhibits.
The Orange County Heritage Museum features restored 1890 homes set amidst gardens.
Santa Ana
is a Southern California city in Orange County, California. It is the seat of Orange County. This convenience attracts a diverse population that appreciates Santa Ana's distinctive housing options, lively nightlife and cultural amenities such as Artist's Village, Discovery Cube Orange County, Heritage Museum of Orange County, the Santa Ana Zoo in Prentice Park and more.In 1887, the California Central Railroad (which became a subsidiary of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway the following year) broke the local South Pacific monopoly on rail travel, offering services between Los Angeles and San Diego via Santa Ana as a major intermediate station. Charles Bowers was a land developer living in Orange County and before his death he donated land to the City of Santa Ana. However, there is no supporting evidence to suggest this and the first documented uses of Santa Ana were in reference to the Santa Ana winds. The profile of the city of Santa Ana in Orange County, California, includes the history of the city and information on residential services, shops, restaurants and points of interest throughout the city.
The city of Santa Ana is a busy urban area with close ties to the founding of Orange County, being the county seat and still containing major government facilities, such as the Superior Courthouse and the Civic Center. The city is also home to Santa Ana College, a two-year public community college, as well as the University of the California Coast and the Orange County branch of the California Art Institute. The Santa Ana Artist Village was created around the Grand Central Art Center at Cal State Fullerton to attract artists and young professionals to live-work lofts and new businesses. The city of Santa Ana is an ethnically diverse 27 square mile city located 35 miles south of Los Angeles and approximately ten miles inland from the Pacific Ocean.
Santa Ana is the corporate headquarters of several companies, including Behr Paint, First American Corporation, Greenwood & Hall, Ingram Micro, SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union, STEC, TTM Technologies, Kern's and Wahoo Fish Taco. The Garden Grove Highway (State Route 2) runs near the northern border of Santa Ana and connects Long Beach to the west and the city of Orange to the east. Across the west end of the city is the mostly channeled Santa Ana River, which is also largely seasonal due to the construction of the Prado Dam and Seven Oaks Dam. The Santa Ana Highway (Interstate) heads north to Los Angeles and south to South Orange County and San Diego.
Like most minority-majority cities in the United States, Santa Ana is a stronghold of the Democratic Party. Santa Ana, approximately four-fifths Latino, has been characterized by The New York Times as the face of a new California, a state where Latinos have more influence in everyday electoral, cultural and demographic life than almost anywhere else in the country. The city of Santa Ana in Orange County, California, is a beautiful city that sits along the Santa Ana River and just ten miles off the California coast.
