Tijuana

Tijuana , city (1990 pop. 698,752), Baja California state, NW Mexico, just south of the U.S. border. It is a gaudy border resort, noted for its racetracks and bullfights. An irrigated agricultural area surrounds the city. During the prohibition era Tijuana gained fame as a wide-open town. It expanded considerably in the wake of a booming tourist trade after World War II, and again in recent years as the border area has become increasingly industrialized. Hundreds of maquiladoras , low-cost foreign-owned manufacturing plants that finish goods for U.S. export, have opened in the region around Tijuana. Apparel, televisions, and motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts are produced.

Tijuana, Mexico, USA Mexico (Baja California): said to be derived from Tia Juana ‘Aunt Jane’, a large working ranch. However, this may have come from the Yumano who called the valley Ti‐Wan ‘Near the Sea’. When the area became the new border between Mexico and the USA a customs post was erected and in time the settlement grew into a city. The name Tijuana was formally adopted in 1929.