San Diego ("Saint-Jacques"), pronounced in English, is a coastal town in southern California, United States,located in the extreme southwest of the country near the border with Mexico. San Diego had 1,301,617 inhabitants in 2010.Historical cradle of California, San Diego is known for its pleasant climate and its beaches and its deep water port and its military history with the U.S. Navy.
Historically a land of people of the United Native American Kumeyaay, San Diego is the first site visited by Europeans in what is now the west coast of the United States. After landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, João Rodrigues Cabrilho claiming the entire area for Spain (New Spain), forming the base of the Alta California two centuries later. The Presidio and the Mission of San Diego, founded in 1769, is the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became part of newly independent Mexico in 1850 and became part of the United States after the Mexican-American War and the admission of California to the union.
The city is the county seat of San Diego and is the economic center of the metropolitan area of San Diego-Carlsbad-SanMarcos and the urban area of San Diego-Tijuana. The key economic drivers in San Diego are the military and defense, tourism, international trade and manufacturing. The presence of the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), with the entire university affiliated medical sites from UC San Diego Health System, has helped make the region a center of biotechnology research.
San Diego has reserved plenty of outdoor space to enjoy the weather, from beaches and boardwalks to the fields and footpaths of sprawling Balboa Park. This is a place where life is lived outdoors, so it’s not surprising that fitness is a religion. Sit at a café long enough, and you are bound to hear talk of 10K races, if not triathlons.
While the rest of California went into a holding pattern when the Internet bubble went bust, San Diego’s economy kept quietly growing. The sustained boom has helped bring a new dynamism to a culture where tastes were once largely defined by military retirees - think khaki and plaid. San Diego won’t seduce you like San Francisco or wow you like Yosemite, but life here is so unrelentingly pleasant that you might not care either way.
San Diego is also a favorite for family vacations, what with kid-positive attractions like SeaWorld and the city’s world-famous zoo.
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The city is the county seat of San Diego and is the economic center of the metropolitan area of San Diego-Carlsbad-SanMarcos and the urban area of San Diego-Tijuana. The key economic drivers in San Diego are the military and defense, tourism, international trade and manufacturing. The presence of the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), with the entire university affiliated medical sites from UC San Diego Health System, has helped make the region a center of biotechnology research.
San Diego has reserved plenty of outdoor space to enjoy the weather, from beaches and boardwalks to the fields and footpaths of sprawling Balboa Park. This is a place where life is lived outdoors, so it’s not surprising that fitness is a religion. Sit at a café long enough, and you are bound to hear talk of 10K races, if not triathlons.
While the rest of California went into a holding pattern when the Internet bubble went bust, San Diego’s economy kept quietly growing. The sustained boom has helped bring a new dynamism to a culture where tastes were once largely defined by military retirees - think khaki and plaid. San Diego won’t seduce you like San Francisco or wow you like Yosemite, but life here is so unrelentingly pleasant that you might not care either way.
San Diego is also a favorite for family vacations, what with kid-positive attractions like SeaWorld and the city’s world-famous zoo.
This page, and all contents of this Web site are Copyright © 2009-2012 by Best Trip Destination.All rights reserved.
