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20-456: Plaza Río Tijuana is an open-air shopping center in the Zona Río (new main business district) of Tijuana , Baja California, Mexico. It has a surface area of 792,000 square feet (73,579 m). It opened in 1981 as the first large American-style mall in the city; previously downtown Tijuana was the leading shopping area. Currently, it has the anchors Soriana , Sears , and Cinépolis . There

40-510: A Swiss-born sculptor who was commissioned to create the cows specifically for the CowParade series of events. Pascal Knapp owns the copyrights to the standing, lying, and grazing cow shapes used in the CowParade events. The concept of "cow parade" has its origins in Zürich , Switzerland, in 1998 by artistic director Walter Knapp, it is based on an idea which was realised in the same city for

60-617: A number of cities worldwide. Zürich itself has adapted the bear theme in the "Teddy-Summer" in 2005. Elephant Parade is dedicated to saving the Asian elephant from extinction with auctioned off proceeds going to the Elephant Family organisation. This adopts the Cowparade idea to Berlin 's town mascot; however the entailing United Buddy Bears exhibitions are very different from all other urban events. The bears were created by

80-624: Is also another important avenue within the area. The Municipal Palace of Tijuana is located here, along with the State Government Center of Tijuana . New City Residential is located here, as well as the Tijuana General Hospital and many other notable buildings. CowParade CowParade is an international public art exhibit that has featured in major world cities. Fiberglass sculptures of cows are decorated by local artists, and distributed over

100-556: Is located at a strategic point, in the north of the city, about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the U.S.-Mexico border and 9 miles (14 km) from downtown San Diego . The Río Zone is within the Delegación Centro, or Central borough , of Tijuana. The old downtown of Tijuana, Zona Centro, borders Zona Río on the west. The Zona Río is home to most of the regional headquarters for commercial and financial businesses and health services. The city's largest mall, Plaza Río Tijuana ,

120-500: Is located here. The Municipal Auditorium of Tijuana, home of both of Tijuana's basketball teams, and the Estadio Casas GeoCaliente Stadium, home of the city's newly formed soccer team. The tallest buildings of Tijuana, Las Torres (officially Plaza Agua Caliente & Grand Hotel Tijuana), are located here, along some other buildings and public hospitals. Paseo del Centenario ("Centennial Avenue")

140-905: The Monumento a la Raza (Spanish for Monument to the Race), the Abraham Lincoln statue, the Ignacio Zaragoza statue, the Cuauhtémoc statue, the Lázaro Cárdenas statue, and others, to which the avenue largely owes its name, Road of the Heroes. During June 2008, Tijuana was hosting the CowParade . Along with the also popular Avenida Revolución, Paseo de los Héroes holds many of the painted cows, in such popular places like

160-512: The Monumento a la Raza and the Tijuana Cultural Center . In contrast to Paseo de los Héroes or Aguas Calientes, this is not one of the main avenues of the whole city, but rather only of Zona Río. This avenue is the main gastronomical corridor of Zona Río, offering the widest variety of gastronomy in the entire city. There are restaurants offering food from Thailand , Mongolia , Greece , Brazil or Israel , not to mention

180-477: The 28-story twin towers that are home for the Plaza Aguacaliente and Grand Hotel Tijuana , commonly known by locals as Las Torres or The Towers . Zona Río literally translates into English as River Zone. This name is owed to the nearly dried Tijuana River , which divides Zona Río. The river is crossed by many bridges to allow traffic between the west side of Zona Río, located at the west-center of

200-812: The German artists Klaus and Eva Herlitz . The idea and the philosophy behind the United Buddy Bears exhibitions are unique: with its international approach and its symbolism, this synthesis of the arts globally promotes tolerance, international understanding and a peaceful coexistence. Since 2008 Wild in Art has created sculpture trails since 2008 from Aberdeen to Cape Town including events associated with sporting events (2012 Olympics and 2014 Commonwealth Games). CowParade has been criticized by contributing artists for their selectivity standards; David Lynch 's cow with its flesh partially ripped off, and organs showing,

220-428: The central market, and the majority of Tijuana's larger hotels and upscale restaurants are also located here, along Zona Río's three main avenues, Paseo de los Héroes, Avenida Padre Kino and Boulevard General Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada. The Zona Río office space submarket had, in 2016, 111,059 square metres (1,195,430 sq ft) of class A and B office space, with another 25,043 square metres (269,560 sq ft) in

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240-441: The city centre, in public places such as train stations, important avenues, and parks. They often feature artwork and designs specific to local culture, as well as city life and other relevant themes. After the exhibition in the city, which may last many months, the statues are auctioned off and the proceeds donated to charity. There are a few variations of shape, but the three most common shapes of cow were created by Pascal Knapp,

260-497: The city, and the east of Zona Rio, located in the east-center of Tijuana. One of the most important avenues in the whole city of Tijuana is the Paseo de los Héroes (lit. "Road of the Heroes"). Along this avenue are located most of the financial, commercial, and touristic businesses of Zona Río and the entire city. Insurance companies, numerous banks, such as BBVA-Bancomer and Banamex , and shopping squares, such as Plaza Río Tijuana ,

280-438: The contiguous Agua Caliente submarket, for a total of 136,102 square metres (1,464,990 sq ft). As such, the area can be considered an edge city . Although being comparatively small in comparison with other Mexican cities main business districts, such as those of Monterrey and Guadalajara , Zona Río has notable skyscrapers, which due to the relative distance between them, are very prominent. The tallest buildings are

300-503: The entire city. Prior to the opening of Tijuana's new airport at Otay district in 1958, the city's former airport was located along present-day Blvd. Agua Caliente. Also one of the main gastronomical corridors in the city, and a touristic and commercial avenue, Blvd. Agua Caliente may be a combination of both Paseo de los Héroes and Blvd. Sanchez Taboada, but with a characteristic of being the place where sports auditoriums and stadiums are located. The Agua Caliente Hippodrome and Racetrack

320-644: The first time in 1986: lions as the symbol of Zurich were painted and then on display throughout the city. The Zürich exhibit 1998 was not called "cow parade" - it was called Land in Sicht ("Land ho"). The concept was brought to the United States when Chicago businessman Peter Hanig, along with Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Lois Weisberg , organized an event in Chicago in 1999 called Cows on Parade . A Swiss company, CowHolding Parade AG, started to explore

340-698: The idea. The American company capitalizing on this idea, CowHolding Parade, was founded in 1999; the Swiss company promptly sued but the case fizzled out without results. A bronze casting of one of the cows is on permanent display in Chicago in commemoration of the city's initial exhibition. The success of this venture inspired many other cities to host similar fundraising projects. The idea has been taken up by other cities which have chosen animals for public art projects with painted fiberglass sculptures (e.g. Liverpool) (see Similar projects ). The phenomenon of CowParade has spawned copy-cat statue decorating projects in

360-492: The largest mall in the city, have their headquarters in this avenue. The cultural heart-point of the city, the Tijuana Cultural Center , is on Paseo de los Héroes. Two recently built skyscrapers are exclusively occupied by two different hospitals and its corporations. Most of the high-end hotels of the entire city are located in Paseo de los Héroes avenue. Paseo de los Héroes is also noted for its many monuments and sculptures, like

380-441: The typical Italian, Spanish, French, Argentinian, Chinese and American foods, plus the widespread Japanese sushi . As regards of Mexican food, the common tacos, Baja California-seafood, and the antojitos (Spanish term for traditional Mexican snacks or tapas), they are found almost everywhere in the avenue. This is one of the most important and largest avenues in the city, together with Paseo de los Héroes, with both crossing nearly

400-411: Was a Dorian's department store here until 2009 when it became Sears. Comercial Mexicana was also in the mall until it became Soriana in 2018. 32°31′42″N 117°1′11″W  /  32.52833°N 117.01972°W  / 32.52833; -117.01972 This article about a Mexican building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Zona R%C3%ADo Zona Río

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