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Bonita (Spanish for "Beautiful") is a census-designated place (CDP) in southern San Diego County, California, nestled between the cities of Chula Vista, National City, and San Diego. The population was 12,538 at the 2010 census. == Geography == Bonita is located at 32°39′30″N 117°02′07″W.According to the United States Census Bureau, Bonita has a total area of 5.1 square miles (13 square kilometers). 5.0 square miles (13 km2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (2.71%) is water. While Bonita is politically designated as an unincorporated community, bounded by the incorporated cities of Chula Vista, San Diego and National City, it is closely associated with the geography of the Lower Sweetwater Valley. Thus considered, Bonita occupies about a five-mile (8 kilometer) stretch of the Sweetwater River, its valley, and surrounding hills on either side, bounded upstream (east) by the Sweetwater Reservoir, and downstream (west) effectively by Interstate 805. The community crosses west of I-805—an area less than 160 acres (0.65 square kilometers)—reaching as far south and west as East H Street and Hilltop Drive. Its northern boundary is State Route 54 and its southern extent reaches approximately one-mile (1.6 km) south of the river. Large portions of modern Bonita consist of housing tracts built throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including: Bonita Verde Estates Bonita Downs Bonita Fairways Bonita Glen Bonita Highlands Bonita Long Canyon Bonita Woods Bonita Woods Park Emerald Ranch Lynwood Hills Ames Ranch Villas de Bonita Rancho RobinhoodThe Bonita area is populated by coyote, racoon, fox, rabbit, squirrel, bobcat, opossum, and skunk, among other wildlife. == History == Before the arrival of the Spanish, Kumeyaay lived in the area around Sweetwater Valley, and called it Apusquel.