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ARTICLES RELATED TO Tijuana - Culture | | | |  Tijuana - Culture: Encyclopedia II - Tijuana - HistoryThe area in which the city of Tijuana is situated in a region once inhabited by the Kumeyaay Indians, a tribe of Yuman-speaking hunter-gatherers. Europeans first arrived in 1542, when the Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo toured the coastline of the area, which was later mapped in 1602 by Sebastián Viscaíno. In 1769, Father Juan Crespí documented more detailed information about the area that would one day be called the Valley of Tijuana and Father Junípero Serra founded the first missi ...
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| | | | Tijuana - Culture: Encyclopedia II - Tijuana - Trivia The famous battle between the Tijuana Cartel and the rival Chihuahua-based Juárez Cartel was portrayed in the 2000 Hollywood movie Traffic.
Tijuana's International Airport (General Abelardo L. Rodríguez International Airport) is known for the tight approaches airplanes have to carry out, flying just over a fence before landing.
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| | | | Tijuana - Culture: Encyclopedia II - Tijuana - Culture and Entertainment
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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 h ...
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| | | | Tijuana - Culture: Encyclopedia II - Tijuana - Economics The U.S. dollar is accepted in many Tijuana businesses. Tijuana is particularly famous among U.S. youth, who cross the border in order to drink alcohol prior to their twenty-first birthday (Mexico's legal drinking age is eighteen).
Due to Tijuana's proximity to the USA and its cheap labor, it is an attractive city for companies to establish extensive industrial parks comprised of maquiladoras, factories situated near the border to produce for export. Foreign and domestic companies employ thousands in these plants, usually in as ...
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