Cerritos
The landscape around Cerritos is a level, intensively urbanized stretch of the Los Angeles Basin, which has shaped both the built environment and local life. Once largely agricultural, the city developed after the Second World War into a planned residential community of detached houses, broad arterial roads and local shopping districts. Coyote Creek follows part of Cerritos’s western edge, a watercourse within the metropolitan fabric of southeastern Los Angeles County. Civic life has a cultural focus at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, which opened in 1993. Cerritos also contains the Cerritos Auto Square, a major cluster of vehicle dealerships. Its orderly, low-rise streetscape reflects the suburban character of this part of Southern California.
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The Los Angeles Basin defines the setting of Cerritos — its broad, level coastal-plain terrain has supported a planned, largely residential city in southeastern Los Angeles County. Incorporated in 1956 as Dairy Valley, the community adopted the name Cerritos in 1967, marking its transition from an agricultural area to a growing suburb. The Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts is a major local cultural venue, while the award-winning Cerritos Library is known for its distinctive themed interiors and public programs. Cerritos also sits within the wider Southern California urban region, with Orange County immediately to the south and east. Browse additional webcams from the Los Angeles Basin to extend your view of Southern California.
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