Los Angeles (city of Angels) презентация

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Location

Location

Los Angeles (city of Angels)- a city in the United States in the

South of California, located on the Pacific ocean. It is the administrative center of the County of the same name, as well as the center of greater Los Angeles.

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Until the end of the 18th century, several dozen Indian settlements were located

on the territory of modern Los Angeles, next to which the Christian mission was established. Next to it there was a settlement of Spanish colonists, which was and turned into the city of Los Angeles. Therefore, it is believed that the City of Angels was founded in 1781. However, at that time in the city was part of Mexico and became American only in 1848, after the signing of a peace treaty between the United States and Mexico.

History

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The population of Los Angeles is about four million people. Los Angeles ranks

as the second largest city in the nation behind New York City, In Los Angeles there are people from about 140 countries speaking approximately 86 different languages and currently call Los Angeles home.

Population

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Los Angeles is the largest industrial and economic center of the Western United

States. The main industrial sectors that ensure the economic development of the city are international trade, television and film industry, military, aerospace, oil refining, electrical, automotive, instrument-making, food industry.

Economy

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Los Angeles spans a widely diverse geographic area. Primarily a desert basin, the

area is surrounded by the San Gabriel Mountain range and divided by the Santa Monica Mountains. Los Angeles County has 81 miles of coastline. There are such rivers as the Los Angeles, the Rio Hondo, the San Gabriel and the Ventura rivers. The climate of Los Angeles as the climate of Southern California has often been described as «perfect» and with good reason. Mostly it is sunny and warm with gentle ocean breezes in the summer. The humidity is low with little rain. In fact, there are no unpleasant seasons in Los Angeles.

Climate

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Nowadays the city of Los Angeles holds many distinctions. Los Angeles is the

entertainment capital of the world, a cultural centre which has more than 300 museums and a paradise of good weather.
Disneyland Park is an amusement park in the city of Anaheim (California, USA), operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, a division of Walt Disney. The first of the Walt Disney theme parks was opened on July 17, 1955, becoming the embodiment of Walt Disney's idea of ​​a park in which the world of cartoons and fairy tales would be recreated, where everyone is interested: adults and children.

Entertainment

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Avenue of Stars

Avenue of Stars is considered to be the most popular attraction

of the city. Every year, more than 10 million tourists stroll along the Avenue of Stars, delighted and terribly reading the names of their idols, immortalized in the stone slabs of the pavement to the glory of the entertainment industry. As befits any sights “with the name”, the Avenue of Stars has a long, varied and very interesting story that continues to take place to this day: new “stars” are laid here about twice a month.

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Downtown a business center of Los Angeles, where on weekdays you can watch

white-collar cups with Starbucks cups, hurrying in a crowded crowd through noisy streets, to their skyscraper office, and wander through the empty streets like a dead quarter.

Downtown

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