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Merced , city (1990 pop. 56,216), seat of Merced co., central Calif.; inc. 1889. It is a growing city and a center for tourism and farm trade in a cotton, fruit, and dairy region. Prefabricated wood buildings and metal products are the chief manufactures. Merced has a large concentration of Hmong immigrants. A campus of the Univ. of California is there, and Yosemite National Park is nearby.

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Merced, California/USA Founded in 1872 and named after a river called Nuestra Señora de la Merced ‘Our Lady of Mercy’ from the Spanish merced ‘mercy’ or ‘favour’.

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