 This term comes from a new popular local verb "Tijuanear" meaning "to Tijuana", describing the cosmopolitan aspects of living in the city and frequently crossing the border.The land was originally inhabited by the Kumeyaay, a tribe of Yuman-speaking hunter-gatherers.Europeans arrived in 1542, when the explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo toured the coastline of the area, which Sebastián Vizcaíno mapped in 1602.