Artesia Wedding

Artesia is a small city in southwest Los Angeles County, California, United States and is one of the Gateway Cities. The population was 16,380 at the 2000 census. Artesia is surrounded on the west, south, and east sides by Cerritos, with Norwalk to the north.

The city of Dairy Valley, California (modern day Cerritos) broke off from the city of Artesia and was incorporated on April 24, 1956 in order to preserve their agricultural way of life from the rapid urbanization taking place.

Artesia is the home of the East West Ice Palace, an ice rink which is co-owned by Michelle Kwan.

Although Artesia is best known for the "Little India" section of Pioneer Blvd. there are also many Filipino, Mexican, Chinese, and Korean-owned stores and residences in the area, as well as Portuguese and other Caucasian-owned stores and residences.

Artesia is located at 33522N, 118450W (33.867215, -118.080622)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.2 km (1.6 mi), all land.