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unusual facts about Mexicali, Baja California



1969 Pacific hurricane season

The information is unclear on how Heather developed but she was first noticed on September 18 1,000 miles southwest of La Paz, Baja California.

Administrative divisions of Mexico

It should be noted that while other municipalities within the constituent states of the federation exercise their autonomy through the municipal council, some, like Mexicali or Querétaro, have further subdivided the municipality into delegaciones or boroughs for administrative purposes as well.

Amir Korangy

After college, Korangy moved to Baja, Mexico where he commenced his career as a publisher.

Anchor Gaslamp

These Sundays have ranged in activities from homeless barbecues to delivering truckloads of donated goods to orphanages and women's recovery homes in Baja California.

Anna's Hummingbird

Anna's Hummingbirds are found along the western coast of North America, from southern Canada to northern Baja California, and inland to southern Arizona.

Beer in San Diego County, California

The Aztec Brewing Company, founded in Mexicali in 1921, moved to San Diego in 1933 following the repeal of Prohibition.

Cistanthe parryi

It is native to the southwestern United States and Baja California.

Climatology

A PDO signal has been reconstructed to 1661 through tree-ring chronologies in the Baja California area.

Compuertas Borough, Baja California

The Port of Entry at East Calexico, California is one of the three ports of entry in the Imperial Valley, with the other ports of entry in Calexico (Mexicali downtown) 10 km west and the other 60 km east at Andrade, California (Los Algodones, Baja California).

Crassadoma

Crassadoma gigantea is found on the Pacific Coast of North America, from British Columbia south to Baja California and Mexico.

Cryptotrema corallinum

Cryptotrema corallinum, the Deep-water blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the eastern Pacific Ocean where it is known to occur from Santa Cruz Island, California to Baja California, Mexico.

Daniel Reveles

Daniel Reveles is an American fiction writer who lives on the outskirts of Tecate, Baja California, Mexico.

David ''D'' Barron

Barron Corona was killed on November 27, 1997 in Tijuana, Baja California during the attempted assassination of journalist Jesus Blancornelas.

Eriogonum davidsonii

This plant is native to the southwestern United States and northern Baja California, where it grows in sandy or gravelly soils in a variety of habitats.

ETrace

Almost half of Mexican police officers examined during 2008 failed background and security tests, a figure that rises to nearly 9 of 10 police agents in the border state of Baja California.

Ezra Drown

Drown and his family were in passage for San Francisco from San Juan del Sud, Nicaragua, in 1853 aboard the Independence, which struck a reef or rocks south of Margarita Island off the coast of Lower California, caught fire and sank.

Ferrocarril Sonora–Baja California

SP, Kyle Railways and later the San Diego and Imperial Valley Railroad operated the line, paying a fee to the SBC, and later to FNM.

Gil Robbins

Gil Robbins died at his home in Esteban Cantu, Baja California, Mexico from prostate cancer on April 5, 2011, two days after his 80th birthday.

Harry W. Crosby

Since then, he has continued to do primary research and to write extensively on the history and cave paintings of Baja California and the early history of Alta California.

Jerome Utley

From 1931 to approximately 1948, he had an ownership interest in the Hotel Playa Ensenada, later renamed the Hotel Riviera del Pacífico, a luxury hotel in Baja California, Mexico.

During World War II, the hotel as used as a military headquarters to guard against a Japanese attack on the United States through Baja California.

José Ulises Macías Salcedo

Named bishop for the Diocese of Mexicali by Pope John Paul II, on 16 June 1984, and consecrated on 29 July, in the city of Mexicali, presided over by Apostolic Delegate Archbishop Girolamo Prigione.

L'americano

Villotto, an American, befriends the Cavalier Lisandro on his visit to the California peninsula.

La Misión, Baja California

La Misión or Misión de San Miguel is a village in Baja California located on Mexican Federal Highway 1 approximately 2 km south of Poco Cielo hotel on the Gold Coast of the Baja California peninsula.

Lewisia brachycalyx

It is native to the mountains of the southwestern United States and Baja California, where it grows in moist habitat such as meadows.

Logfia gallica

It is widely introduced species, that has naturalized in western North America — from southwestern Oregon, throughout California including the Channel Islands, to northwestern Baja California, Mexico.

Lottia scabra

scabra is found on the Pacific coast of North America from Cape Arago, Oregon to southern Baja California.

Malcolm A. Love Library

The collection is worldwide in scope, with an emphasis on San Diego, California, the United States of America, and Baja California.

Manuel Vizcarra

Vizcarra supported the proposal that the name had to be Mexicali in response to journalist Leroy Holt's proposal for Calexico for the neighboring town.

María Elena Salinas

After a humble beginning as news reader at Radio Xpress XEPRS, a radio station broadcasting to Baja California, Mexico, and Southern California, USA, she promptly jumped into the ranks of KMEX Channel 34 in Los Angeles, California as TV news reporter.

Mexico–Philippines relations

She was again the guest of Mexico, in October 2002, when the Tenth APEC Leaders Meeting was held in La Paz, Baja California.

Milanesa

In northern Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Chihuahua (due to U.S influence), it features lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise like a traditional sandwich, but the milanesa is also common in these regions as the main course of a meal.

Niverka Marte

Niverka played for her native country at the 2007 FIVB Girls' U18 Volleyball World Championship in Baja California, Mexico.

Peveril Meigs

Peveril Meigs, III, (May 5, 1903-September 16, 1979) was an American geographer, notable for his studies of arid lands on several continents and in particular for his work on the native peoples and early missions of northern Baja California, Mexico.

Phyllodactylus nocticolus

The Peninsular Leaf-toed Gecko (Phyllodactylus nocticolus) is a medium sized gecko found in California and Baja California.

Pichia heedii

Described in 1978, it was found growing on a dead senita cactus plant (Lophocereus schottii) in the Sonoran Desert of Baja California, Mexico.

Pogonomyrmex californicus

The distribution of this ant extends from insect has a range that stretches from Texas to Utah to Baja California, Sonora, and Chihuahua.

Roosterfish

The roosterfish, Nematistius pectoralis, is a game fish found in the warmer waters of the East Pacific from Baja California to Peru.

Sabkha

Modern sabkhas are present in varying form along the coasts of North Africa, Baja California, and at Shark Bay in Australia.

Sebastes goodei

The Chilipepper rockfish is a type of rockfish (Sebastidae) that lives mainly off the coast of western North America from Baja California to Vancouver.

Second Battle of Tijuana

At Mexicali the rebels split their forces in two, half of which marched for Tijuana under General Caryl ap Rhys Pryce.

Spergularia villosa

It is native to southern South America, and it is known in the southwestern United States and Baja California as an introduced species and casual weed.

Villa Jesús María

Villa Jesús María, Baja California is a small town in Baja California on Highway 1 between El Rosarito to the north and Guerrero Negro to the south.

Western gray squirrel

There are three geographical subspecies: Sciurus griseus griseus (central Washington to the western Sierra Nevada in central California); S. g. nigripes (from south of San Francisco Bay to San Luis Obispo County, California; and S. g. anthonyi, which ranges from San Luis Obispo to northern Baja California).

Western pond turtle

Western pond turtles originally ranged from northern Baja California, Mexico, north to the Puget Sound region of Washington.

White abalone

Historically the white abalone ranged from Point Conception, California to Baja California, Mexico, and was found especially on the offshore islands.

White suckerfish

The distribution of this species is worldwide in warm open seas: it is found in the western Indian Ocean including Réunion and Mauritius, in the eastern Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Chile (but is rare north of Baja California), and in the western and eastern central Atlantic Ocean from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to Brazil and St. Paul's Rocks.

XHILA-TDT

It broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 46, serving the Mexicali Valley and the southern Imperial Valley, including El Centro, California, and the Colorado River cities of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora and Yuma, Arizona.

Yellow longnose butterflyfish

The yellow longnose butterflyfish is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific area from the eastern coast of Africa to Hawaii, Red Sea included, and is also found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Baja California to the Revillagigedo Islands and the Galapagos.


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