El Lago

El Lago (The Lake) is a community in Bridgeland. It has 2,045 inhabitants, most of them of Latin American heritage. Primarily a Spanish speaking community, El Lago is one of the largest non-English language communities in Bridgeland. The community is very close to El Paso, another Spanish community. El Lago is an indie community and an open community. It has no religious denomination, but most inhabitants are Catholic.

El Lago consists of three neighborhoods, built around a small village center. El Lago has two airfields, of which one is almost completely out of use. The community thrives on the production of wheat and mangoes. To the north of the community lies an extensive area of private family farms where lots of different crops are cultivated.

The community has two primary schools and one secondary school. The secondary school also provides education for El Paso.

History
El Lago was founded by Roman-Catholic Argentinean settlers in 2200, as part of a group of Latin-American settlers called Convergencia who strived to establish communities built around traditional small-town values. The other half of this group, a mixture of Peruvian and Argentinean settlers, founded the neighboring town of El Paso. Extensive promotion of the two communities led to an increase in citizenship application between 2205 and 2210. During this period, the town, originally conceived as an Argentinean community, attracted Chilean, Bolivian and Uruguayan settlers.

Currently, a third Convergencia community is built near El Lago and El Paso, called Buenos Aires, after the capital of Argentina.