Tijuana is located in a strategic area that offers enormous challenges  and opportunities to achieve development. The municipality is part member of the macro region known as the Pacific Rim, whose main development centers are Los Angeles, California and Tokyo, Japan. 

As part of the country's border, Tijuana is linked to the southwestern United States, known as the Sun Belt, center of attraction of capital in real estate business and a new type of industrialization, mainly computer, ie an economy that favors the constant influx of a wide range people. 

Tijuana has a peculiar economic development, based initially in tourism, services and trade, and then in industry foreign maquiladora sector and a major industry nomen local.

The high rates of population growth, mainly due to immigration, encouraged the presence of social sectors and areas of the city with significant levels of marginality, resulting especialemtne the lack of public services and urban infrastructure.