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Compuertas Borough, Baja California
Compuertas is a former borough of Mexicali, located in the northwest of Baja California. Geography Compuertas is located in the northeastern part of Mexicali, and adjacent to the Imperial County census-designated place of Calexico, California. The Mexicali downtown is to the west, to the east is the Hechicera borough, and to the south is the borough of González Ortega. 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). History The zone had a few settlements before to be integrated into the city area, the urban zone was populated by moderate income families. Since the opening of the new port of entry "Garita Nuevo Mexicali", new roads and boulevards transformed this part of the region in Mexicali's "Golden Residential Zone" — and the arrival of high ...
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Borough Of Mexicali
Mexicali Municipality is a municipality ( es, link=no, municipio) in the Mexican state of Baja California. Its municipal seat ( es, link=no, cabecera municipal) is located in the city of Mexicali. As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 1,049,792. The municipality has an area of . This includes many smaller outlying communities as well as the city of Mexicali. Also, the islands of Baja California located in the Gulf of California are part of the municipality, among them the mudflat islands at the mouth of the Colorado River (the largest one being Montague Island), Isla Ángel de la Guarda and the islands of the San Lorenzo Marine Archipelago National Park. Mexicali is the northernmost municipality of Latin America. The city of Mexicali was founded in 1903, and its name is a portmanteau of ''Mexico'' and ''California'', as is the name of Calexico, California across the border. Industry Mexicali has more than 180 maquiladoras, and the rapid growth of the c ...
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Baja California
Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1952, the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California (). It has an area of (3.57% of the land mass of Mexico) and comprises the northern half of the Baja California Peninsula, north of the 28th parallel, plus oceanic Guadalupe Island. The mainland portion of the state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean; on the east by Sonora, the U.S. state of Arizona, and the Gulf of California; on the north by the U.S. state of California; and on the south by Baja California Sur. The state has an estimated population of 3,769,020 as of 2020, significantly higher than the sparsely populated Baja California Sur to the south, and similar to San Diego County, California, to its north. Over 75% of ...
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Mexicali
Mexicali (; ) is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California. The city, seat of the Mexicali Municipality, has a population of 689,775, according to the 2010 census, while the Calexico–Mexicali metropolitan area is home to 1,000,000 inhabitants on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. Mexicali is a regional economic and cultural hub for the border region of The Californias. Mexicali was founded at the turn of the 20th century, when the region's agricultural economy experienced a period of boom. The city rapidly expanded throughout the 20th century, owing to the proliferation of maquiladoras in the city, making the Mexicali economy more interconnected with businesses from across the border. Today, Mexicali is a major manufacturing center and an emerging tourist destination. History The Spaniards arrived in the area after crossing the Sonoran Desert's " Camino del Diablo" or Devil's Road. This led to the evangelization of the area by Catholic missionar ...
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Imperial County, California
Imperial County is a County (United States), county on the southeast border of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 179,702, making it the least populous county in Southern California. The county seat is El Centro, California, El Centro. Imperial is the most recent California county to be established, as it was created in 1907 out of portions of San Diego County. Imperial County is located in the far southeast of California, in the Imperial Valley. It borders San Diego County to the west, Riverside County, California, Riverside County to the north, the U.S. state of Arizona to the east and the Mexico, Mexican state of Baja California to the south. It includes the El Centro Metropolitan Statistical Area and is part of the Southern California San Diego–Imperial (California), border region, the smallest but most economically diverse region in the state. Although this region is a desert, with high temperatures and low ...
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Census-designated Place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such as self-governing cities, towns, and villages, for the purposes of gathering and correlating statistical data. CDPs are populated areas that generally include one officially designated but currently unincorporated community, for which the CDP is named, plus surrounding inhabited countryside of varying dimensions and, occasionally, other, smaller unincorporated communities as well. CDPs include small rural communities, edge cities, colonias located along the Mexico–United States border, and unincorporated resort and retirement communities and their environs. The boundaries of any CDP may change from decade to decade, and the Census Bureau may de-establish a CDP after a period of study, then re-establish it some decades later. Most unin ...
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Calexico, California
Calexico () is a city in southern Imperial County, California. Situated on the Mexican border, it is linked economically with the much larger city of Mexicali, the capital of the Mexican state of Baja California. It is about east of San Diego and west of Yuma, Arizona. Calexico, along with six other incorporated Imperial County cities, forms part of the larger populated area known as the Imperial Valley. First explored by Europeans in the 18th century, Calexico began as a small tent community which was ultimately incorporated in 1908. Etymology The name of the city is a portmanteau of California and Mexico. The originally proposed names were ''Santo Tomas'' or ''Thomasville.'' Mexicali is a similarly named city directly across the international border from Calexico, its name being a portmanteau of the words "Mexico" and "California". History The expedition of Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza traveled through the area some time between 1775 and 1776, during Spanish rule ...
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González Ortega Borough, Baja California
Gonzalez or González may refer to: People * González (surname) Places * González, Cesar, Colombia * González Municipality, Tamaulipas, Mexico * Gonzalez, Florida, United States * González Island, Antarctica * González Anchorage, Antarctica * Juan González, Adjuntas, Puerto Rico * Pedro González, Panama Other * Ernesto Gonzalez, cartoon character in ''Bordertown'' (American TV series) * Gonzalez (band), a British band, and their 1974 album * González Byass, a Spanish winery * USS ''Gonzalez'', a U.S. Navy destroyer See also * * * * * Gonçalves, Portuguese equivalent of Gonzalez * Gonsales, Portuguese variation of Gonzalez * Gonsalves, English language variation of Gonçalves * Gonzales (other) * Justice Gonzalez (other) Justice Gonzalez may refer to: * Alberto Gonzales (born 1955), justice of the Texas Supreme Court * Raul A. Gonzalez (born 1940), justice of the Texas Supreme Court * Steven González (born 1963), associate justice of the Washi ...
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Imperial Valley
, photo = Salton Sea from Space.jpg , photo_caption = The Imperial Valley below the Salton Sea. The US-Mexican border runs diagonally across the lower left of the image. , map_image = Newriverwatershed-1-.jpg , map_caption = Map of Imperial Valley , coordinates = , location = California, United States , direction = Northwest-Southeast , length = , towns = Brawley, Calexico, El Centro, Imperial , traversed = Interstate 8, State Route 78, State Route 86, State Route 111 The Imperial Valley ( es, Valle de Imperial or ''Valle Imperial'') of Southern California lies in Imperial and Riverside counties, with an urban area centered on the city of El Centro. The Valley is bordered by the Colorado River to the east and, in part, the Salton Sea to the west. Farther west lies the San Diego and Imperial County border. To the north is the Coachella Valley region of Riverside County, which together with Imperial Valley form the Salton Trough, or the Cahuilla Basin, also the ...
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Andrade, California
Andrade is a small locale in the southeasternmost corner of the state of California, in Imperial County. The community is located entirely within the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation. It is directly across the border from Los Algodones, the northernmost town of the municipality of Mexicali, in Baja California, and in all of Mexico. The ZIP Code is 92283. The community is inside area codes 442 and 760. History Pilot Knob Station served as a stop on the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line and Butterfield Overland Stage line and its successors until the railroad arrived in 1877. The Pilot Knob Station was located at what is now Andrade, near the bank of the Colorado River at the foot of Pilot Knob, for which it was named. Andrade is named after Mexican General Guillermo Andrade (1833-1905). The General sold the land for the settlement to the California Development Company. The town was named in 1912 with establishment of the post office. Andrade was in the Navy, a diplomat and a b ...
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Los Algodones, Baja California
Los Algodones is a city in Mexicali Municipality, Baja California. Located on the United States-Mexico border, Los Algodones is south of Andrade, California and west of Yuma, Arizona. It reported a population of 5,474 as of the 2010 Mexican census. Los Algodones is popularly referred to as "Molar City", due to the large number of dentists in the city that cater to Americans seeking affordable dental care outside of the United States. Etymology The Spanish-language name ''Los Algodones'' translates into English as "the cotton plants". The origin of the name is unknown. Geography Los Algodones is the northernmost town in Mexico, and at its northeastern tip is the northernmost point in the state of Baja California, and in Latin America. From the U.S. side, Los Algodones is most easily reached via Interstate 8 and south a short distance (3.33 Km / 2.07 mi) along State Route 186/Andrade Road to the international border at Andrade, California. From Andrade, visitors park their ve ...
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Private Property
Private property is a legal designation for the ownership of property by non-governmental legal entities. Private property is distinguishable from public property and personal property, which is owned by a state entity, and from collective or cooperative property, which is owned by a group of non-governmental entities. Private property is foundational to capitalism, an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. The distinction between private and personal property varies depending on political philosophy, with socialist perspectives making a hard distinction between the two. As a legal concept, private property is defined and enforced by a country's political system. History Ideas about and discussion of private property date back to the Persian Empire, and emerge in the Western tradition at least as far back as Plato. Prior to the 18th century, English speakers generally used the word "property" in reference ...
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