Tecate
Tecate is a city of 73,000 people in Baja California on the border with California, about an hour east of Tijuana. Unlike most US/Mexico border crossings, there is no town on the US side.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Airvillanueva, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tecate Port of Entry and Tecate Airport.
Tecate Port of Entry
Border checkpoint
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Tecate Port of Entry is one of three ports of entry in the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan region. The land port is located between Tecate, California, in San Diego County's Mountain Empire and Tecate Municipality in Baja California.
Tecate Airport
Aerodrome
Tecate Airport is a closed, paved airstrip located south of Tecate in the Municipality of Tecate, Baja California, Mexico. The city is on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tecate.
Tecate
Village
Photo: Marriedtofilm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tecate is an unincorporated community in the Mountain Empire area of central southeastern San Diego County, California. It is adjacent to the Mexico–United States border and the Mexican city of Tecate in Baja California; it is affectionately nicknamed Tecatito on account of its smaller size compared with the Mexican city.
Tecate
- Type: City with 81,100 residents
- Description: city in Baja California, Mexico
- Categories: locality of Mexico, border city, and locality
- Location: Tecate Municipality, Baja California, Baja California, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
32.5654° or 32° 33′ 55″ northLongitude
-116.6299° or 116° 37′ 48″ westPopulation
81,100Elevation
540 metres (1,772 feet)United Nations Location Code
MX TCTOpen location code
8545H98C+52OpenStreetMap ID
node 3280130361OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Tecate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تيكاتي”
- Bulgarian: “Текате”
- Catalan: “Tecate”
- Cebuano: “Tecate”
- Chinese: “特卡特”
- Danish: “Tecate”
- Dutch: “Tecate”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تيكاتى”
- French: “Tecate”
- Galician: “Tecate”
- German: “Tecate”
- Hebrew: “טקאטה”
- Hungarian: “Tecate”
- Indonesian: “Tecate”
- Italian: “Tecate”
- Japanese: “テカテ (バハ・カリフォルニア州)”
- Japanese: “テカテ”
- Korean: “테카테”
- Ladino: “Tecate”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tecate”
- Norwegian: “Tecate”
- Persian: “تکت”
- Polish: “Tecate”
- Portuguese: “La Rumorosa”
- Portuguese: “Tecate”
- Russian: “Текате”
- Serbian: “Текате”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tecate, Baja California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tecate”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Tecate”
- Spanish: “Tecate”
- Swedish: “Tecate”
- Tatar: “Текате”
- Turkish: “Tecate”
- Ukrainian: “Текате”
- Urdu: “تیکاتے”
- Uzbek: “Tecate”
- Vietnamese: “Tecate, Baja California”
- Vietnamese: “Tecate”
- “Tecate”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tecate”. Photo: Comisión Mexicana de Filmaciones, CC BY-SA 2.0.