37 Facts About Tijuana Mexico

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Tijuana Mexico is a dominant manufacturing center for North America, hosting facilities of many multinational conglomerate companies.

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Tijuana Mexico attracted these tourists with a Feria Tipica Mexicana – Typical Mexican Fair.

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Tijuana Mexico developed a greater variety of attractions and activities to offer its visitors.

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4.

In 1994, PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was assassinated in Tijuana Mexico while making an appearance in the plaza of Lomas Taurinas, a neighborhood nestled in a valley near Centro.

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Around 2008, thousands of Tijuana Mexico's elite bought houses in and moved to Bonita and Eastlake in Chula Vista, California, to escape violence, kidnapping and other crimes taking place during that period.

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In recent years, Tijuana has become an important city of commerce and migration for Mexico and US.

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7.

Housing development in the Tijuana Mexico Hills has led to eradication of many seasonal mountain streams.

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8.

The varied terrain of Tijuana Mexico gives the city elevation extremes that range from sea level to 790 meters.

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Tijuana Mexico is noted for its rough terrain, which includes many canyons, steep hills, and mesas.

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10.

Large hills in Tijuana Mexico include the Cerro Colorado and the Cerro de las Abejas.

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11.

Tijuana Mexico experienced a building boom that was brought to a halt by the Great Recession.

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12.

Tijuana skyline is the fifth largest skyline in Mexico and is located in the Zona Rio and to a smaller extent, Playas de Tijuana.

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13.

Recent construction on high rises has begun in the aforementioned areas, as buildings such as New City Residential and Grand Hotel Tijuana Mexico have been developed and taken prominent places in the skyline as the tallest buildings.

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14.

Municipality of Tijuana Mexico is divided into eight administrative boroughs, or Delegaciones.

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15.

Tijuana Mexico has a large and rapidly growing population of Americans, mostly from Southern California.

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16.

The heavy influx of immigrants to the city and municipality of Tijuana has led to job creation in the form of over 700 twin-plant factories, which serve as the basis of employment for the majority of the working-class people in northern Mexico.

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17.

The high poverty level in Tijuana Mexico is attributed to the city's "magnet status" for people who have come from the poorer south of the nation and citizens from other nations seeking to escape from extreme poverty.

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18.

Tijuana Mexico holds a status that provides the possibility of employment as well as higher education and the dream of crossing the border.

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19.

From 2007 through 2010, Tijuana Mexico experienced an unusually high level of violent crime related to gang violence, in part derived from the Mexican drug war and human trafficking.

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20.

In 2009 and depending on the source, Tijuana Mexico Municipality experienced either 556 or 1,118 murders, mostly as a result of the drug war.

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21.

In May 2022, Statista data reported Tijuana Mexico as having the highest homicide rate in the world at 138 per 100,000 inhabitants.

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22.

At present, the parties with the greatest presence in Tijuana are the National Action Party, Institutional Revolutionary Party, and Ecologist Green Party of Mexico.

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23.

Tijuana Mexico is the economic center of Baja California and an important center for international trade in The Californias.

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24.

Plaza Rio Tijuana Mexico is a large regional mall anchored by Cinepolis, Sanborns, Super DAX and Sears.

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25.

Tijuana Mexico's drinking age of 18 makes it a common weekend destination for many high school and college aged Southern Californians who tend to stay on Avenida Revolucion.

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26.

Tijuana Mexico is known for its red-light district Zona Norte with legal prostitution in strip clubs and on the street.

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27.

Tijuana Mexico is a large manufacturing center, and in addition to tourism, it serves as a cornerstone of the city economy.

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28.

Tijuana Mexico is home to many private Primary Schools, Secondary Schools and High Schools as well as nationally high-ranked colleges and universities.

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29.

Many foreigners travel to Tijuana Mexico to drink and dance, buy prescription drugs, purchase bootleg brand-name clothing, timepieces, and other personal accessories found globally, as well as manufactured and hand-crafted local curiosities.

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Art collectives like Bulbo and film production like Palenque Filmaciones explore the use of film like the award-winning Tijuana Makes Me Happy, media like television bulbo TV and print "bulbo PRESS", to show different realities of Tijuana out of Mexico.

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Since the decade of the 1920s, Tijuana Mexico has excelled in the musical field, thanks to the first groups of ranchera music that began to set the tourist establishments in the area with the visit of foreigners, including the former Casino Agua Caliente.

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Tijuana Mexico enjoys a large base of support in many other musical scenes such as mexican hip hop, reggae, hardcore, punk, black metal and house music.

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33.

Famous musicians are from Tijuana Mexico including the pop-rock singer-songwriter Lynda Thomas and Vanessa Zamora and international indie punk bands like Delux and Los Kung-Fu Monkeys.

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34.

Tijuana Mexico has a long history of producing many world champion professional boxers, such as Antonio Margarito and Erik Morales.

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35.

Local public transportation in Tijuana Mexico is run by semiprivate companies, and has one of the most complex, or perhaps unorganized networks.

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36.

Major bus lines operating in Tijuana Mexico include Azul y Blanco de Magallanes and Transporte Efectivo Express de Tijuana Mexico – TEEXTI; modernizing system originally intended to phase out the other lines that partially introduced but ceased and merged with Azul y Blanco.

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In 2006, Tijuana Mexico underwent a major overhaul of its existing system of guayines, or shared fixed-route station wagons, forcing the replacement of the guayines with new models of vans, serving as fixed-route taxis.

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