Tecate Port of Entry

Tecate Port of Entry
300px Tecate Border Inspection Station
Location
Country	United States
Location	405 Tecate Road, Tecate, California 91980
Coordinates
Details
Opened	1919
Phone	(619) 938-8330
Hours	5:00 AM-11:00 PM
Exit Port	Tecate, BC, Mexico
Statistics
2011 Cars	1,571,780
2011 Trucks	51,930
Pedestrians	525,312
Website http://www.cbp.gov/contact/ports/tecate-class

The Tecate Port of Entry is one 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. It connects California State Route 188 with Paseo Lazero Cardenas, a spur of Mexico Federal Highway 2, as well as Federal Highway 3 to the south. It is a minor port in comparison to the larger San Ysidro Port of Entry and Otay Mesa Port of Entry. This is attributed in part to the fact that reaching the crossing on the US side requires driving on narrow, winding mountain roads.

History

File:Tecate border crossing 1919.jpg

Tecate border crossing as seen from Mexico in 1919. US Customs building is on the left

The original port of entry was established sometime prior to 1919 to inspect the traffic traveling from Tecate, BC Mexico in large part to shop at the Thing Brothers store (later the Johnson store) on the US side of the border. The current historic border inspection station (where pedestrians continue to be inspected) was built in 1933. In 2005 the port was re-opened as an expansion project was completed. Vehicular traffic is now inspected in a new facility attached to the rear of the historic port. The expanded port cost US$18 million and had approximately five times as much space as the original 1933 facility.

See also

• List of Mexico–United States border crossings
• List of Canada–United States border crossings

External links

• Otay Mesa Land Port of Entry Fact Sheet