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Tecate (Spanish: ⓘ) is a city in Tecate Municipality, Baja California. It is across the Mexico–US border from Tecate, California . As of 2019, the city had a population of 108,860 inhabitants, [ 1 ] while the metropolitan area has a population of 132,406 inhabitants. [ 1 ]
Tecate is an unincorporated community in the Mountain Empire area of central southeastern San Diego County, California.It is adjacent to (directly north of) the Mexico–United States border and the Mexican city of Tecate in Baja California; it is affectionately nicknamed Tecatito (or "Little Tecate") on account of its smaller size compared with the Mexican city.
A road from the town of Potrero to Tecate existed by 1917. [10] The Tecate border crossing originally opened in 1932. [2] In 1938, the San Diego County board of supervisors proposed moving rerouting the road to be shorter and on more level ground, although there was opposition from local residents and businesses who favored the old road. [11]
Rail service over the border including Pacific Southwest Railway Museum's Ticket to Tecate passenger train was suspended in 2009 due to a fire in Tunnel 3. This section of the line is undergoing reconstruction, which includes the daylighting of Tunnel 3 and rebuilding Tunnel 4's west portal. [ 11 ]
State Route 94 (SR 94) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that is 63.324 miles (101.910 km) long. The western portion, known as the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway, begins at Interstate 5 (I-5) in downtown San Diego and continues to the end of the freeway portion past SR 125 in Spring Valley.
The SD&A reached an agreement with the Mexican Government in 1909 to route the tracks over the border. As part of the agreement, the SD&A is ordered to form the Tijuana and Tecate Railway, which will construct and hold a 99-year lease on the 44-mile (70.81 km) Mexican rail segment. [1] Construction proved extremely challenging.
Federal Highway 3 (Spanish: Carretera Federal 3, Fed. 3 ) is a tollfree part of the federal highway corridors (Spanish: los corredores carreteros federales). [1] [2] [3] One segment [clarification needed] connects Tecate (and California State Route 188 on the US-Mexico border) to Ensenada in Baja California.
Tecate border crossing as seen from Mexico in 1919. US Customs building is on the left. The original port of entry was established sometime prior to 1919 to inspect the traffic traveling from Tecate, Baja California, in large part to shop at the Thing Brothers store (later the Johnson store) on the US side of the border. [1]