Calexico is a city in Imperial County, California.

The name “ Calexico ” is a portmanteau of California and Mexico, which, like that of its adjacent sister city of Mexicali, emphasizes its identity as a border city.

Within city limits is Calexico International Airport, the U. S. Customs and Border Protection check-point for private passenger and air-cargo flights entering the U. S. from Mexico.

Mexicali is a similarly named city directly across the international border from Calexico.

With 95. 3 % of the population Hispanic or Latino ( of any race ), Calexico has one of the highest Hispanic / Latino percentages of any California city.

The poverty rate in Calexico as a border city is above-average in the US, while in contrast Mexicali is considered prosperous by Mexican standards.

The Calexico Unified School District serves city residents.

Founded on March 14, 1903, Mexicali is situated on the U. S .- Mexico border adjacent to its sister city Calexico, California with which it forms a metropolitan region, Calexico-Mexicali.

However in 2011, the city of Chico lost their NAL team the Chico Outlaws and that team moved to Calexico, California ( see the Arizona Winter League-the Calexico Outlaws ) in Imperial Valley right on the Mexican border.

It is located in Calexico, CA, USA, and has just over 500 students in the K-12 levels, most of whom are from the neighbouring city of Mexicali, Mexico.

The city of Mexicali was founded in 1903, and its name is a portmanteau of Mexico and California, as is the name of Calexico, California across the border.

The Calexico branch of the Imperial County Superior Court system was officially renamed on Saturday, December 19, 1992 in honor of Legaspi family members Henry, Victor and Luis Legaspi as the Legaspi Municipal Court Complex.

* Louis A. Fuentes-101st Mayor, Appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Imperial County Board of Supervisors for District 1 Calexico.

It runs from State Route 111, near the Mexican border crossing at Calexico, north through the Imperial Valley via El Centro and Brawley, and around the west side of the Salton Sea into the Coachella Valley.

54 Nude Honeys, Abbass, Abe Duque, Afu-Ra, Alain Chamfort, Alexis HK, Anais, Anis, Anna Karina, Anna Ternheim, Architecture in Helsinki, Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Arthur H, Asyl, Bénabar, Battles, Bernard Lavilliers, Bikini Machine, Birdy Nam Nam, Bumcello with Mazaher & Ganoub, Buzzcocks, Calexico, Cali, Calixte de Nigremont, Cariboo, Champion, Cheikha Rimitti, Christophe Mali, Clarika, CocoRosie, Coldcut, Company Scene & Track, Da Silva, Dagoba, Dani Siciliano, Daniel Darc, Deus, Diam's, Digitalism, Dionysos, Dominique A, Émilie Simon, Eths, Final Fantasy, Fredo, Hocus Pocus, Hushpuppies, Indochine Iron & Wine, Izïa, Jacques Higelin, John Lord Fonda, Joseph D ' Anvers, JR Ewing, Juliette, Justice, K ' naan, Ken Boothe, Keny Arkana, Killa Carltoon, La Grande Sophie, Le Cirque Des Mirages, Les Brats, Les Ogres de Barback, Loic Lantoine, Lo ' Jo, Louis Chedid, Massive Attack, Mahmoud Ahmed, Mansfield Tya, Marcel Kanche, Mariza, Matthew Herbert, Mauss, Melissa Mars, Mick Harvey, Mickey 3D, Mike Patton, Miossec, Modeselektor, Ms. John Soda, Pauline Croze, Plaid, PM Gaillard Sans Gêne, Poni Hoax, Psapp, Puppetmastaz, Queenadreena, Raphael, Rhesus, Rodolphe Burger, Saïan Supa Crew, Sapho, Sarah Slean, Second Sex, Sharon Jones, Skin, Smooth, Splean, Sylvain Chauveau, The Dresden Dolls, The Flaming Lips, The Spinto Band, Thee Silver Mt.

* The song " Bisbee Blue " was included on the 2006 Calexico album, Garden Ruin.

The name Calexico was coined from a combination of the words California and Mexico.

The racial makeup of Calexico was 23, 150 ( 60. 0 %) White, 134 ( 0. 3 %) African American, 204 ( 0. 5 %) Native American, 504 ( 1. 3 %) Asian, 21 ( 0. 1 %) Pacific Islander, 12, 920 ( 33. 5 %) from other races, and 1, 639 ( 4. 2 %) from two or more races.

* Curtis Hanson's Losin ' It was filmed in Calexico.

The EP In the Reins, a collaboration with the Arizona-based rock band Calexico, was released in September 2005.

The concentration of small housing units that straddled the border was called Calexico on the U. S. side, Mexicali on the Mexican side.

Calexico had its origins in 1990 when Burns, who was studying music at the University of California, Irvine, met up with Convertino, who was playing drums with Howe Gelb in Giant Sand.

After the band signed with Quarterstick Records ( a subsidiary of Touch and Go Records ) and changed their name to Calexico, Spoke was reissued by that label in 1997.

In 2010, a new album of Calexico was released: the soundtrack of the documentary " Circo ".

Sunday was headlined by David Gray and Manic Street Preachers and also featured The Cardigans, The Polyphonic Spree, Super Furry Animals, Beth Orton, The Music, The Flaming Lips, Tricky, The Datsuns, Keith Flint, Calexico, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Kings of Leon and Har Mar Superstar.

Aerocalexico is a 2001 Calexico album that was only available on their 2001 tour or on their website.

" Love Will Tear Us Apart " was first covered by New Order ( at the Edgbaston Tower Ballroom, Birmingham on 9 May 1983 ) and has been covered by many artists including Paul Young, Adrian Borland, Thom Yorke, Mark Owen, Björk, Nerina Pallot, Hawksley Workman, Calexico, Bloc Party, The Cure, Swans, Unbroken, Broken Social Scene, Nouvelle Vague, Human Drama, Heavens, Fall Out Boy, José González, Red Mecca, Yat-Kha, Stanton Miranda, U2, David Gahan, Adam Green, John Frusciante, Arcade Fire, Revere, Squarepusher, Honeyroot, Chris Edwards, Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, Moonspell, The Blood Divine, Simple Minds, Oysterband with June Tabor, Paul Young, Centre Excuse, Jamie Cullum, Evelyn Evelyn, Bis, In the Nursery, Apoptygma Berzerk and The Mulhollands.

The Outlaws identity was given to a new expansion team in the Arizona Winter League, the Calexico Outlaws.

The Tucson-based band Calexico have stated that Dubie's poetry was very influential on their album Carried to Dust, particularly the song " Two Silver Trees ".

It was filmed largely in Calexico, California.

Josefina Fierro ( 1914, Calexico, California-March 1998 ), later Josefina Fierro de Bright, was a Mexican American leader who helped organize resistance against discrimination in the American Southwest during the Great Depression.

The album, originally titled To Nancy, with Love, featured rock performers such as Calexico, Sonic Youth, U2, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Steven Van Zandt, Jon Spencer, and Pete Yorn, who all cited Sinatra as an influence.

The railroad stretched from San Diego to Calexico, California.

Calexico is about east of San Diego and west of Yuma, Arizona.

Calexico is located at.

Calexico is located southeast of Los Angeles, east of San Diego, west of Phoenix, and adjacent to Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico.

Calexico is served by State Routes 98, 7 and 111, with direct connection to Interstate 8 ( 5 miles north ) and State Route 86.

There are eighteen regular and irregular common carriers for intrastate and interstate truck service to Calexico.

The first post office in Calexico opened in 1902.

On April 4, 2010 the El Mayor earthquake caused moderate to heavy damage throughout Calexico and across the border in Mexicali.

Glass and debris littered the streets of downtown Calexico and two buildings partially collapsed.

The Calexico water treatment plant sustained severe damage.

The City of Calexico operates under a City Council / City Manager form of government.

The members of the Calexico City Council set policy and appoint commissions and committees that study the present and future needs of Calexico.