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It is located in the municipality of Mexicali and serves as a borough seat of its surrounding area. The intersection of Baja California State Highways 1 and 4 there is called the Crucero Ledón. It is located 50 kilometers south of Mexicali, the capital of Baja California. The 2010 census reported a population of 6,098 inhabitants.
In 1903, motorcars first arrived in Mexico City, totaling 136 cars in that year and rising to 800 by 1906.This encouraged then president Porfirio Díaz, to create both the first Mexican highway code (which would allow cars to move at a maximum speed of 10 km/h or 6 mph on crowded or small streets and 40 km/h or 25 mph elsewhere) and, along with this, a tax for car owners which would be ...
Mexicali (English: / ˌ m ɛ k s ɪ ˈ k æ l i /; Spanish: ⓘ) [2] is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California.The city, which is the 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 Mexico–United States border.
The Capture of Mexicali, or the Battle of Mexicali, was the first action of the Mexican Revolution taken by rebel Magonistas against the federal government of Porfirio Díaz. Under the direction of Ricardo Flores Magón , a group of rebels captured the border town of Mexicali, Baja California , with little resistance.