CORONADO

city, San Diego county, southern California, U.S. It lies on a peninsula between San Diego Bay and the Pacific and is linked to San Diego by the San Diego Coronado Bay Bridge. Named after Los Coronados, a group of Mexican offshore islands, it developed around the ornate Hotel del Coronado (completed 1888) as a residential beach resort. Silver Strand Beach State Park is to the south. Key elements in the city's economy are the North Island Naval Air Station (1917), on the northern tip of the peninsula, and the Naval Amphibious Base (1943) on the Silver Strand Peninsula. Inc. 1890. Pop. (1990) 26,540.