Moreno Valley is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and is part of the Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario metropolitan area. It is the second-largest city in Riverside County by population and one of the Inland Empire’s population centers. The city’s population was 208,634 at the 2020 census. Moreno Valley is also allocation of the larger greater Los Angeles area.

The city derived its publish from the little community of Moreno, which became allocation of the city of Moreno Valley in the heavens of the city was incorporated in 1984. Frank E. Brown, one of the founders of the community of Moreno in 1882, declined to have the town named after him, but to award him, the town was named Moreno, Spanish for brown.

The Moreno Valley Place was first inhabited 2,300 years ago. There are at least 200 antique archaeological locations within the city. The majority of the sites are milling stations – where chaparral seed was the dominant milling activity. Rock art, consisting of pictographs, and petroglyphs are present – though most of the petroglyphs in Moreno Valley consist of boulders with “cupules”, or cup-shaped holes pecked into them.

Spanish scouts initially came across descendants of the Shoshone, and Luiseño tribes; although supplementary groups, such as the Serrano and Cahuilla were in the area. The late archaic Luiseño and Cahuilla were semi-sedentary, meaning that they wintered in villages, then loan out in family groups during the spring and summer months to harvest seeds and acorns.