Coachella is a city in Riverside County, California; it is the easternmost city and namesake of the Coachella Valley, in Southern California's Colorado Desert.
Coachella is one of California's fastest-growing cities; when it incorporated in 1946, it had 1,000 residents, but at the 2010 census the population had grown to 40,704. The city is officially bilingual in English and Spanish, though 90% of residents speak Spanish.