Otay Centenario is a borough of the

municipality of Tijuana Tijuana Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California. Its municipal seat is located in the city of Tijuana. According to the 2020 census, the municipality had a population of 1,922,523. Montserrat Caballero of the MORE ...

Baja California Baja California, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California, is a state in Mexico. It is the northwesternmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1952, the area was known as the North Territory of B ...

, Mexico. It is the result of a merger between the former boroughs of Mesa de Otay and Centenario which took place on January 1, 2014."MESA DE OTAY-CENTENARIO ESTRENARÁ EDIFICIO", ''InfoBaja'', 2014-02-12
/ref> The borough is located east of the Centro borough and the

Zona Río Zona Río (English: "River Zone") is an official zone, and the main modern business district, of the city of Tijuana, Mexico. Zona Río is located at a strategic point, in the north of the city, about from the U.S.-Mexico border and from downto ...

; south of the U.S. border and San Diego's

Otay Mesa Otay Mesa ( ) is a community in the southern exclave of San Diego, California, just north of the U.S.–Mexico border. It is bordered by the Otay River Valley and the city of Chula Vista on the north; Interstate 805 and the neighborhoods o ...

neighborhood; and north of La Mesa.

Tijuana International Airport Tijuana International Airport (); officially ''Aeropuerto Internacional General Abelardo L. Rodríguez'' (General Abelardo L. Rodríguez International Airport) , is an international airport located northeast of downtown Tijuana, Baja Califo ...

, and many

maquiladora A (), or (), is a factory that is largely duty (economics), duty free and tariff free. These factories take raw materials and assemble, manufacture, or process them and export the finished product. These factories and systems are present thro ...

s are located here. Main shopping centers are the Centro Comercial Otay and Plaza Americana Otay, which is located in front of Centro Comercial Otay. The area is noted as the second gastronomic hub of the city, with many restaurants. The former Centenario borough has the largest number of factories and

s in the city. Its largest neighborhood (''colonia'') is ''Ciudad Industrial'' ("Industrial City"). Three of the city's most important streets, Boulevard Bellas Artes, Boulevard Industrial and

Mexican Federal Highway 2 Federal Highway 2 (, Fed. 2) is a toll-free part of the Mexican federal highway corridors () that runs along the U.S. border. The highway is in two separate improved segments, starting in the west at Tijuana, Baja California, on the Pacific ...

, are located here. Parque de la Amistad (not to be confused with Friendship Park at the border in

Playas de Tijuana Playas de Tijuana ( Spanish for "beaches of Tijuana") is the westernmost borough of the municipality of Tijuana, Baja California, stretching from the United States border in the north to Rosarito Beach Municipality in the south. The Bullring by ...

) is a large park in the borough.

Education

The Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana^es (Technological Institute of Tijuana) and the Autonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana are located in the borough.

Border crossing facilities

This area contains the

Otay Mesa Port of Entry The Otay Mesa Port of Entry ( Spanish: ''Puerto de Entrada Mesa de Otay'') is one of three ports of entry (POE) in the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan region, in the U.S. state of California, connecting Otay Mesa in San Diego with the Otay Cen ...

Otay Mesa, San Diego Otay Mesa ( ) is a community in the southern exclave of San Diego, California, just north of the U.S.–Mexico border. It is bordered by the Otay River Valley and the city of Chula Vista on the north; Interstate 805 and the neighborhoods o ...

, and the planned new

Otay Mesa East Port of Entry The Otay Mesa East Port of Entry is a planned border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, approximately two miles east of the existing Otay Mesa Port of Entry. The crossing will connect the Otay Centenario borough of Tijuana with East Otay Mes ...

will connect Otay-Centenario with the area of

East Otay Mesa East Otay Mesa is an as-yet undeveloped area in the South Bay region of unincorporated San Diego County, California. It is located along the northern side of the Mexico–United States border, with plans for future developments, including a bo ...

San Diego County San Diego County (), officially the County of San Diego, is a county in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of California, north to its border with Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,298,634; it is the second-most populous ...

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{{San Diego-Tijuana Boroughs of Tijuana San Diego–Tijuana Restaurant districts and streets in Mexico