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San Ysidro (Californio Spanish for for "St. Isidore", Spanish pronunciation: [san iˈsiðɾo]) is a district of San Diego, California, immediately north of the Mexico–United States border. It neighbors Otay Mesa West to the north, Otay Mesa to the east, and Nestor and the Tijuana River Valley to the west; together these communities form South ...
The San Ysidro Mountains are towards the top of this image. On the upper center of the image, the neighborhood of Valle Imperial can be seen reaching into the Cerro San Isidro. Lying only 13 to 21 miles (21 to 34 km) inland from the Pacific Ocean , this mountain range rises out of the coastal plain of San Diego and Tijuana until it reaches a ...
The San Ysidro Mountains — a mountain range of the Peninsular Ranges System, located in southwestern San Diego County, California. The western-most range of southern San Diego County, it also extends across the U.S.-Mexico border for a short distance into Baja California state.
The first colony was in the San Diego area. After public meetings, the Little Landers Corporation was incorporated on August 1, 1908. The resulting colony was located on the former Belcher Ranch. [4] It was named San Ysidro, probably after the patron saint of farmers, Isidore the Laborer, [5] and was formally inaugurated on January 11, 1909. It ...
The San Ysidro Port of Entry (aka the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry or the San Ysidro LPOE) [2] is the largest land border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, and the fourth-busiest land border crossing in the world (second-busiest excluding the crossings between mainland China and its two special administrative regions) [3] with 70,000 northbound vehicles and 20,000 northbound pedestrians ...
W. E. Smythe. William Ellsworth Smythe, known as W. E. Smythe (1861–1922), was a journalist, writer and founder of the Little Landers movement, which aimed to settle small suburban lots with people who would farm their own properties, live off the land and sell or trade the surplus for needed income.
The Jemez River runs through San Ysidro, just north of where the Rio Salado joins the Jemez River. The village has been a farming community since 1699 when Juan Trujillo established a settlement named for San Ysidro, or Saint Isidore the Farmer. The Village was incorporated in 1967. An annual San Ysidro Fiesta Day is held each year in mid-May.
Interstate 805 (I-805) is a major north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway in Southern California.It is a bypass auxiliary route of I-5, running roughly through the center of the Greater San Diego region from San Ysidro (part of the city of San Diego) near the Mexico–U.S. border to near Del Mar.