However, the largest proportion of water consumed in the watershed (more than 80%) comes from the Colorado River through the Colorado River-Tijuana Aqueduct (ARCT, for its acronym in Spanish) in the case of Tijuana and Tecate, and through the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWDSC) from the north, on the U.S.
On the Mexican side of the watershed, according to projections by the Consejo Nacional de Poblacion (Conapo), the municipalities of Tijuana and Tecate will be part of a metropolitan area with a population of approximately 2.33 million for the same year, which represents an increase of 30.5% above the 2010 statistics (Conapo, 2013).
Los trazos urbanos, historicos y socioeconomicos de lo que hoy en dia es la multicultural ciudad de Tijuana, inician con la intervencion del soldado californio Santiago Arguello Moraga [1792-1862].
Antes, es importante recurrir a la historia nacional y local a manera de contextualizar y deconstruir, las principales variables que influyeron historicamente en la conformacion socio-espacial de Tijuana. Del tal suerte que, si nos concentramos en el ano de 1829, recordaremos que Espana hacia el intento por invadir Mexico independiente; mientras que el Gobernador de la Alta California, Jose Maria Echeandia [1825--1831 y 1832--1833], extendia un generoso titulo de concesion al soldado Arguello, por una superficie de 4,387.5 hectareas.
Tijuana is infamous for its seedy nightlife, but along Avenida Revolucion you get regular bars and clubs.
But a day or two in Tijuana will give you a truer taste of Mexico than staying a week in a beach resort further south.
The crime highlights the precarious position of migrants, particularly minors, in
Tijuana, said Vicente Sanchez, a professor of public administration at the Colegio de la Frontera Norte in
Tijuana, although he also said he did not expect such incidents to become commonplace.
Gastelum said Friday that the Mexican government has talked about sending 20 tons of resources to Tijuana to help but that three-fourths consisted of materials to reinforce the border and only 5 tons were for the migrants.
The mayor also criticized the federal government for not taking more seriously President Donald Trump's threat Thursday to shut down the border if his administration determined Mexico had lost "control" of the situation in Tijuana.
Tijuana's head of migrant services, Cesar Palencia Chavez, said authorities offered to take the migrants to shelters immediately, but they initially refused.
With a total of three caravans moving through Mexico including 7,000 to 10,000 migrants in all, questions arose as to how Tijuana would deal with such a huge influx, especially given US moves to tighten border security and make it harder to claim asylum.