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pagodas, located just outside the border crossing to the USA
Chinatown, Mexicali is claimed to have the largest per capita
concentration of residents of Chinese origin, around 5,000, by
Mexicali. While this does not compare to U.S. cities like San
Francisco or New York, early in the 20th century Mexicali was
numerically and culturally more Chinese than Mexican. The
Chinese arrived to the area as laborers for the Colorado River
Land Company, an American enterprise which designed and built an
extensive irrigation system in the Valley of Mexicali. Some
immigrants came from the United States, often fleeing anti-
Chinese policies there, while others sailed directly from China.
Thousands of Chinese were lured to the area by the promise of
high wages, but for most that never materialised.[1]
Asociación China  Many of the Chinese labourers who came to the
irrigation system stayed on after it