Valle de Las Palmas
town in Tecate Municipality, State of Baja California, Mexico
Valle de las Palmas (Palms Valley in Spanish) is located between two hamlets Espuela and Seco in the municipalities of Tijuana and Tecate, Baja California, Mexico. It is the site of a long-term planned urban development which would take advantage of proximity to the existing cities of Tijuana to the north west and Mexicali to the north east to create a similar sized city of one million people by the year 2030, on Mexican Federal Highway 3 around an existing industrial park and university campus Unidad Valle De Las Palmas. The first project in Valle de las Palmas, named Valle San Pedro, is proposed by the Mexican Federal Government, the State of Baja California, Urbi (land developer and homebuilder) and Banobras. It has been certified as the first Integral Sustainable Urban Development or DUIS in Mexico, which establishes criteria in collaboration with Interamerican Development Bank IDB to evaluate projects that will receive inter-secretarial technical support and public investment. The locality reported a population of 1,860 inhabitants in the 2010 federal census. It is located at an altitude of 282 m. (925 ft.) above sea level.
Also is an agricultural area with olives and grapes fields, and some farms with cows, pigs and poultry.
Industrialization direction
This can be surmised from the courses of instruction offered by the University as Aerospace, Computers, Microelectronics and Renewable Energy.
Transport
Valle de Las Palmas is on Mexican Federal Highway 3 running north from Ensenada, Baja California and is south of the city of Tecate which city is on a spur of the toll road linking Tijuana with Mexicali across the central Sierra.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Valle de Las Palmas” as town in Tecate Municipality, State of Baja California, Mexico. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as town in Tecate Municipality, State of Baja California, Mexico. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3571979. Authority coordinates are 32.369, -116.618. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2030 and 2010.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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This entry incorporates text from “Valle de Las Palmas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.