San Diego (General Info)

Before continuing with my personal experience, I’m gonna talk about the San Diego
County and more specifically about San Diego city and its surroundings.
• Located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, more or less
190 km south from Los Angeles.
• Within its borders of 4200 sq. miles, San Diego encompasses 18 cities and
numerous neighbourhoods, for example, Coronado Island, La Jolla, Escondido, La
Mesa, El Cajon, Chula Vista, Lake Side…
• It also borders Mexico so it’s very common that people from Mexico come to
San Diego and the other way around.
• 2nd Largest city of California and the 8th of the United States.
• It boasts a citywide population of nearly 1.4 million residents and more than 3
million residents countryside.
• As an interesting fact, the city of San Diego has been called “the birthplace of
California” as it was the first place visited by European on what we know now as
the South Coast in the USA. It was a Spaniard, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo who
claimed the area for Spain forming in that way the basis for the settlement of Alta
California 200 later.
• In 1821 San Diego, well California, became part of the newly independent
Mexico.
• in 1848 it became part of the USA and finally, it was recognized as a state in
1850.
• Regarding the city, San Diego is considered the economic centre of San Diego
County and also of Tijuana.
• It is also very well known by UCSD, The University of California San Diego.