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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.
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 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]
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.
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]
Mount Laguna Air Force Station was one of twenty-eight stations built as part of the second segment of the Air Defense Command permanent radar network. Prompted by the start of the Korean War, on July 11, 1950, the Secretary of the Air Force asked the Secretary of Defense for approval to expedite construction of the permanent network.
The Tecate Divide is a mountain ridge in southeastern San Diego County, California, running in a north-south direction on the southeast fringe of the Cuyamaca Mountains. It reaches an altitude of 4,239 feet (1,292 m), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and passes between the towns of Live Oak Springs to the west [ 1 ] and Boulevard, California on its eastern slope.
Tecate Peak is a mountain in San Diego County, California. It is four miles west of the twin towns of Tecate, California , and Tecate , Baja California , and is about 1/2 mile north of the Mexico–United States border .