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Tehachapi (; Kawaiisu: Tihachipia, meaning “hard climb”) is a city in Kern County, California, United States, in the Tehachapi Mountains, at an height above sea level of 3,970 feet (1,210 m), between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. Tehachapi is 35 miles (56 km) east-southeast of Bakersfield, and 20 miles (32 km) west of Mojave. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10 square miles (26 km) and a population of 14,414. The Tehachapi Place is known for the user-friendly Tehachapi Loop (a popular railfan site), the Pacific Crest Trail and for the excellent conditions for the aerial sport of gliding.

The Kawaiisu people (also Nuwu (“people” in Kawaiisu), or Nuooah) are the Native American tribe whose homeland was the Tehachapi Valley, and seasonally the southern Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert, for thousands of years.

One possibility for the heritage of the publish Tehachapi comes from the Kawaiisu language. It may be derived from the word for “hard climb” or tihachipia, according to the Tomi-Kahni Resource Center. The pact has been formerly known and spelled as: Tehachapai; Tehachapa; Tehachepi; Tehachipi; and Summit Station. According to Yokuts informant Wahumchah, recorded by anthropologist Frank Forrest Latta, Tehachapi derives from a Yokuts-Ute amalgam, from Yokuts taheech “oak-covered flat” + Ute pah’ “water” (cl. Pah-ute, lit. ‘Water Ute’). On an 1864 map of California, the proclaim appears as Taheechepah.