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Tijuana - Culture and Entertainment
Tijuana - Culture
The city has various schools of superior studies, conservatory music, dance schools, plastic arts, science and culinary arts. Also, there is a a professional and university theater, the opera, many movie theaters, two bullrings, and diverse festivals along the year.
The Tijuana Cultural Center (CECUT) is comprised of a theatre, lecture rooms, video rooms, a library, exhibition hall, museum of the Californias, a futuristic planetary movie theater, and a restaurant. Since 1992, the CECUT has hosted the Orchestra of Baja California (OBC), it headquarters the Center of Scenic Arts of the Northwest (CAEN) and the Hispanic-American Center for Guitar (CHG). Since 2001, the CECUT receives an about a million visitors per year, making it Baja California's most important cultural center. Another important culture center is La Casa de la Cultura, comprising a school, theater, and public library. Dance, painting, music, plastic arts, photography and language are taught there. The city also has Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura (Municipal Institute of Art and Culture), the Tijuana Wax Museum, and the Museo El Trompo(The Trompo Museum).
Tijuana - Education
Universities of the region include College of the Northern Frontier (COLEF), the most important research institution in Tijuana; Baja California's Autonomous University (UABC), with Baja California's best medical and dentistry school in Mexico; Tijuana Institute of Technology (ITT), the strongest in engineering majors in the state; Universidad Iberoamericana - Tijuana, the most prestigious private school in Baja California; and Center of Technical and Superior Teaching (CETYS), the best university in the state. The demand for technical jobs is high in this region. For that reason, other technically-oriented universities such as Colegio Nacional de Educacion Profesional Tecnica (CONALEP), Centro de Ensenanza Tecnica e Industrial (CECATI), Universidad de Tijuana (CUT) and Univer have been founded.
Although there are many high schools in Tijuana, only two of them have prominent presence: Escuela Preparatoria Federal Lázaro Cárdenas and Instituto Mexico. The former is a public high school that dates back to the 1940's. Currently, it is the biggest high school in Baja California in terms of enrollment and headquarters one of the two International Baccalaureate programs (IB) in the city. Instituto Mexico, on the other hand, is the largest private and catholic school in Baja California. This institution is known for its academic rigour and also because many regional entrepreneurs send their teenagers to study there. Some say that the best place to get a bilingual education in Tijuana is at Instituto Cumbres, a Legionaries of Christ school (K-12).
Tijuana - Entertainment
Image:Sytjborder.jpg Tijuana's most important entertainment center is the Hipódromo de Agua Caliente. It comprises a horse and dog race track, and a small zoo.
Parque Morelos has a small zoo and big open spaces perfect for recreational activities and weekend barbeque; El Parque de la Amistad has a small pond, and a running and dirt-bike track. Parque Teniente Guerrero is a small park located downtown with a public library and weekend entertainment by clowns.
The most popular tourist attraction is Avenida Revolución. Many foreigners travel there to drink, buy prescription drugs, bootleg brand-name clothing and accessories, and Mexican curiosities.
Avenida Revolución is also famous for its nearby red-light district "La Coahuila" which boasts a large number of street prostitutes as well as a great selection of strip clubs. The strip clubs are typically full-contact, in which the dancers will allow patrons to fondle their parts. The dancers also solicit their services which typically tend to be more pricey than those of the street prostitutes.
About 1,200 prostitutes from all over Mexico work in La Coahuila, making it a sex tourist destination that ranks in popularity with Amsterdam and Bangkok, said Melissa Farley, a researcher with Prostitution Research and Education, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization.
In Tijuana can be found a diversity of shopping malls, the most visited being Plaza Rio, located just a few minutes away from the US border. The mall hosts a variety of shops, wich sale a wide array of things, ranging from cheap mexican curiosities to expensive imports. The Plaza Rio also represents a common place for the people to socialize.
Tijuana - Sports
The city also hosts the Tijuana Potros, a baseball team that plays in the Mexican Summer League in the northernmost stadium in Mexico. Also have a soccer team Named Dorados Tijuana playing in a small stadium on the CREA, a sports-training facility located in the Zona Rio.
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