Notes
- ↑ The SANDAG Major Statistical Area named East County is further divided into four subregional areas - Palomar-Julian, Laguna-Pine Valley, Mountain Empire , and Anza-Borrego - and five community planning areas - North Mountain, Julian, Central Mountain, Mountain Empire, and Desert; thought it excludes East Suburban, another MSA commonly thought of as East County
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- ↑ Mazza, Cris. Indigenous: Growing Up Californian City Lights Books. 2003. p. xviii.
- ↑ Ted Couro and Christina Hutcheson (1973), Dictionary of Mesa Grande Diegueño, Malki Museum Press, Morongo Indian Reservation, Banning, California
- ↑ "Major Statistical Areas of the San Diego Region". San Diego Association of Governments. Retrieved March 22, 2010.
