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Calexico
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Calexico (kəlĕk`sĭkō), city (1990 pop. 18,633), Imperial co., S Calif., at the Mexican border; inc. 1908. A port of entry from adjacent Mexicali Mexicali , city (1990 pop. 438,377), capital of Baja California state, NW Mexico, across the border from Calexico, Calif. Once noted chiefly as the center of a cotton- and cereal-raising area, it has experienced extensive construction of foreign-owned assembly plants
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, Baja California, it is also a trade center for the southern part of the fertile Imperial Valley Imperial Valley, fertile region in the Colorado Desert, SE Calif., extending S into NW Mexico. Once part of the Gulf of California, most of the region is below sea level; its lowest point is −232 ft (−71 m) at the southern shore of the Salton Sea.
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. Tourism is central to Calexico's economy; smuggling has long been a problem.


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Giant Sand's Howe Gelb once accused his old rhythm section - Joey Burns and John Convertino, now Calexico - of "working against" his band, so it was inevitable that they parted ways.
Sam Beam (Iron & Wine) needed Calexico's Joey Burns and John Convertino.
The band, named after a city on the California-Mexico border, sprang from the fertile ground of Howe Gelb's Giant Sand (originally the Giant Sandworms) when Joey Burns (vocals, guitar) and John Convertino (drums/percussion) decided on a side-project.
 
 
 
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