Stretching 150 miles east from San Diego and Tijuana on the Pacific coast to Yuma and San Luis Rio Colorado, the Western Region of the border is the most populated section of the U.S./Mexico boundary. Over four million people live in Tijuana alone, and over eight million Hispanics dwell in Southern California south of Los Angeles! The cost of living in Southern California is extremely high, requiring a church planter working there to receive nearly $250,000 in annual salary just to survive! As with other parts of the border, there is a tremendous flow of people crossing the border daily, with as many of 60,000 people crossing from Tijuana to San Diego each day to go to work. There is quite a contrast in climates as well, from a pleasant ocean climate of the coast to the scorching 120° heat of the Sonoran desert around Mexicali and Yuma.
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