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Saturday, October 19, 2013

TIJUANA, BORDER AND FUN

October 19, 2013
TIJUANA, BORDER AND FUN
Tijuana is the largest city in the state of Baja California, Mexico. It is 170 km west of state capital, Mexicali, and 110 km north of Ensenada. Is head of the municipality of the same name and is known, among other epithets, as "the corner of Mexico" and "Mexico's door." Their motto is "Here begins the country" .2 It is the westernmost city in Latin America, and the westernmost town Isla Guadalupe, and is also the largest oceanic insular possession of Mexico, located in the homonymous island in the same municipality. The city is also one of the largest in the country because of its proximity to the United States as well as internationally recognized as the world's most populated border. Tijuana is ranked as the sixth country's metropolitan area, which forms, together with the city of Rosarito, Tecate, and San Diego, California, metropolitan area "transnational" Mexico's largest, with over 5