Río Tijuana

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Río Tijuana
( English Tijuana River )
The river in Tijuana

The river in Tijuana

Data
location Baja California (Mexico), California (USA)
River system Río Tijuana
source in the Sierra de Juarez
muzzle at Imperial Beach in the Pacific Coordinates: 32 ° 33 ′ 18 ″  N , 117 ° 7 ′ 41 ″  W 32 ° 33 ′ 18 ″  N , 117 ° 7 ′ 41 ″  W
Mouth height 0  m

length 195 km
Reservoirs flowed through Abelardo L. Rodríguez Dam

The Río Tijuana ( English Tijuana River ) is a 195 kilometer long river in northern Lower California in Mexico and in the extreme south of the US state California . It flows into the Pacific on the southern border of California . The Tijuana River is dammed in the southeast of Tijuana by the Abelardo L. Rodríguez Dam , for irrigation and drinking water supply .

The Río Tijuana rises in the Sierra de Juárez in the Mexican state of Baja California about 70 kilometers from Ensenada . Then it flows through Tijuana about 8 kilometers from the Pacific. It then flows across the state line at San Ysidro , a district of San Diego , and reaches the Pacific Ocean 15 kilometers south of downtown San Diego at Imperial Beach .

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Commons : Tijuana River  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
The bank area of ​​the river not far from the mouth