About Wenatchee Valley College

Wenatchee Valley College (WVC) is a public community assistant professor in Wenatchee, Washington. The college provides students in the same way as adult education classes, certifications, associate degrees, and one bachelor’s degree. WVC’s primary minister to district is one of the largest in the state, serving an Place larger than Massachusetts, at more than 10,000 square miles (30,000 km2).

The bookish consists of two campuses, a main campus in central Wenatchee and an Omak campus. Because of the close proximity to area high schools, WVC maintains a sizable Running Start student population, with students attending scholarly during the junior and senior years in high school.

Wenatchee (/wɛˈnætʃiː/ weh-NA-tchee) is the county chair and largest city of Chelan County, Washington, United States. The population within the city limits in 2010 was 31,925, and was estimated to have increased to 34,360 as of 2019. Located in the north-central allowance of the state, at the confluence of the Columbia and Wenatchee rivers near the eastern foothills of the Cascade Range, Wenatchee lies on the western side of the Columbia River, across from the city of East Wenatchee. The Columbia River forms the boundary in the company of Chelan and Douglas County. Wenatchee is the principal city of the Wenatchee–East Wenatchee, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Chelan and Douglas counties (total population just about 110,884). However, the “Wenatchee Valley Area” generally refers to the estate between Rocky Reach and Rock Island Dam on both banks of the Columbia, which includes East Wenatchee, Rock Island, and Malaga.

The city was named for the clear Wenatchi Indian tribe. The say is a Sahaptin word that means “river which comes [or whose source is] from canyons” or “robe of the rainbow”. Awenatchela means “people at the source [of a river]”. The city of Wenatchee shares its name as soon as the Wenatchee River, Lake Wenatchee and the Wenatchee National Forest.

Wenatchee is referred to as the “Apple Capital of the World” due to the valley’s many orchards. The city is next sometimes referred to as the “Buckle of the Power Belt of the Great Northwest”. The “Power Belt of the Great Northwest” is a parable for the series of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River. Rock Island Dam is located nearest to the middle of this “belt”, and as a result was labeled the “Buckle”. This wise saying is printed at the top of every issue of Wenatchee’s newspaper, the Wenatchee World, but is no longer in common use elsewhere.