The Autonomous University of Baja California, Ensenada is a public

Public

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 research university campus

Campus

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 located in Ensenada

Ensenada, Baja California

Ensenada is a coastal city in Mexico and the third-largest city in Baja California. It is located south of San Diego on the Baja California Peninsula. The city is locally referred to as La Cenicienta del Pacífico, or, The Cinderella of the Pacific...

, Baja California

Baja California

Baja California officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is both the northernmost and westernmost state of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1953, the area was known as the North...

. The branch under the Autonomous University of Baja California

Autonomous University of Baja California

The Autonomous University of Baja California, is a public university in the Mexican state of Baja California. UABC is one of the 43 state universities throughout Mexico as part of the country's state university system. The Autonomous University of Baja California headquarters are located in the...

 maintains two sub-campus', or extensions, in Valle Dorado and San Quintin

San Quintín, Baja California

San Quintín is a coastal town on the west coast of the Mexican state of Baja California, in the municipio of Ensenada. San Quintín has beautiful beaches and several places for tourists to stay. Tourists can enjoy fishing, camping, bird watching, surfing, and clam digging...

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The Ensenada campus is known for being the oceanographic

Oceanography

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 research center in Mexico

Mexico

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 with its College of Marine science and its Institute for Oceanographic Research, which publishes its own international research journal. It is also located across the Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education

Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education

The Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education is a public research center sponsored by the National Council for Science and Technology of Mexico in the city of Ensenada, Baja California, and specialized in Earth Sciences, Oceanography and Applied...

 (CICESE). The Ensenada-Tijuana Highway separates the Ensenada campus and the CICESE.