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unusual facts about Tijuana, 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.

Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright

Aidan Quinn as Charlie Wright: A U.S. banker who scams billions and flees to Tijuana

Alejandro Guido

Guido began playing for Club Tijuana's U-20 team on the 2012-13 season, but on August 22, 2012, Guido made his professional debut in a 2-1 victory over Celaya in a Copa MX match.

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.

Boxing at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Welterweight

The winner of those trials, Vanes Martirosyan (USA), qualified for the Qualifying Tournament in Tijuana.

California State Route 11

It will connect SR 905 and SR 125 to what is known as the Tijuana 2000 corridor that connects to Mexican Federal Highway 2D and Mexican Federal Highway 2 to Tecate, and Mexican Federal Highway 1D to Ensenada.

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.

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.

Dave Ekins

Dave Ekins (born 1932 in Los Angeles, California) is an American off-road racing pioneer having set the first Tijuana to La Paz timed run in under 40 hours aboard a Honda CL72 Scrambler in 1962.

David ''D'' Barron

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

Francisco Ortiz Franco

Francisco Javier Ortiz Franco (1954 in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato – June 22, 2004 in Tijuana, Baja California) was a Mexican journalist, who was murdered after writing about drug trafficking.

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.

Herb Alpert's Ninth

None of Beethoven's Ninth actually appeared in the album tracks, but another classical work did - a medley of the tunes from the opera Carmen, centering on "Habanera", and also including "cameos" from some of the group's earlier hits - "Spanish Flea", "A Taste of Honey", "Whipped Cream", "What Now My Love", "Zorba The Greek" and "Tijuana Taxi" - worked into the track.

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.

KVMD

It also reaches a good portion of Los Angeles, Orange and part of San Diego counties, but XETV-TV Tijuana/San Diego, which also broadcast digitally on channel 23, blocked KVMD's signal.

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.

Los Dug Dug's

In 1964 Xippos Rock began a road trip from Durango to Tijuana and halfway through the trip,in the city of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, the name was changed to Los Dug Dug's, an abbreviation of the band's native city and state.

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.

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.

Pablo Aguilar

Pablo César Aguilar (born 1987), Paraguayan football defender who plays for Club Tijuana in the Liga MX (Mexican Primera División)

Panoptica

Roberto A. Mendoza , known as Panoptica, has been one of the figures in the Mexican electronic scene since the late 80s, founding bands like electro pos-industrial outfit Artefakto and in the late 90’s being part of the Tijuana based norteña-meets-techno Nortec Collective.

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.

Silvio Coucci

A New Yorker, in 1931 Silvio Coucci rode Thoroughbreds at Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico under contract with brothers John and George Coburn.

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.

Tijuana metropolitan area

The Tijuana metropolitan area, and in Spanish the Zona Metropolitana de Tijuana, is located on the Pacific Ocean in Mexico.

The census bureau defined metropolitan area comprises two municipalities: Tijuana and Rosarito Beach.

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.

Virtual crime

In 2002, a company called Blacksnow Interactive, a game currency exchange, admitted to using workers in a "virtual sweatshop" in Tijuana, Mexico to farm money and items from Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot.

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.

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.


see also

San Diego and Arizona Railway

In 1979 San Diego's Metropolitan Development Board (MTDB) purchased three portions of the SD&AE: from Plaster City to the border, from San Diego south of the border between San Ysidro. California, and Tijuana, Baja California, and from San Diego east to El Cajon.