Ensenada

See also: Ensenada (homonymy)

Ensenada , is the third big city of the state of Baja California Mexico, which counts 5 municipalities: (Ensenada, Mexicali, Tecate, Tijuana, Rosarito). Ensenada is located on the plan of the geographical coordinates at 31° 52´ of northern latitude and 116° 37´ of western longitude and the west of the Pacific Ocean. the city is located to some 130 kilometer of the border Mexico E. - U. and has a surface of 51,952.3 km ². , According to a census of the population in 2000, this municipality would count 370,730 inhabitants. This city is characterized by a commercial port with the modern infrastructures making of this city an important city.

History

In the history Précolombienne this city was initially populated by the Indians Yumano.
  • 1602, Portuguese Sebastián Vizcaíno (1548-1615) travelled inside bay and surprised by the beauty of the latter gave him the name of Ensenada de Todos los Santos .

  • In 1920, the Prohibition of the United States, offered to this city an unexpected prosperity as a border zone and allowed him to develop a hotel infrastructure and the services of a casino.

  • In 1949 Alfonso and Pedro Rocha Espinosa buy the hotel Riviera del Pacífico , at that time he was visited on several occasions by the president Miguel Alemán, and by artists and personalities of international repute. This de luxe hotel was exproprié by the governor Braulio Maldonado, recognized for its corruption. Currently the old de luxe hotel is a historic building and the preferred place of the inhabitants for the celebration of marriages, of meetings and others.

interesting places

  • El Maleco
  • the park of Ventana Al mar
  • the walk of the Hold Will precede
  • Cantina Hussong, the oldest bar of the Baja California, localized in the avenida Ruiz.
  • Island Guadalupe
  • the bar-discotheques Mango-Mango and Papas& Beer

Commercial fishing

More than 90 species are marketed in Ensenada, among the most important species, the Thon, the Crevette, the Homard, the abalone, the Sardine, the Maquereau.

Gastronomy

The city is recognized to offir a fish kitchen and shellfish of sea, one organizes each year there since 1978, Feria del Pescado there del Marisco . Another culinary event are the Chile Cook Off , and the Fiestas of mow Vendimias (festival viticultural), but also a coucours of paella (Concurso of mow Paellas) which does not have anything to envy those produced in Andalusia.

Ensenada, is recognized for its gastronomical reception, its Cabernet fabulous coming from San Antonio of mow Minas, its national park, its cave paintings in the Cañon de Guadalupe.

Higher educational establishments

  • Ensenada campus off the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC)

  • Universidad Xochicalco
  • Instituto Tecnológico de Ensenada (ITE)
  • Ensenada campus off the Central of Enseñanza Técnica there Superior (CETyS)
  • Central of Investigación Científica there of Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE)
  • Tecnológico de Baja California (TBC)

External bonds

  • Photographs of Ensenada

  • Web site of Ensenada

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