Zona Norte, Tijuana

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Zona Norte (officially Colonia Zona Norte and la Colonia Coahuila, "North Zone (neighborhood)") is an official neighborhood, as well as a red light district located in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. It is among the largest red light districts in North America known for its brothels, which present themselves in public as strip clubs and bars, similar to gentlemen's clubs in the United States. Many bars and strip clubs in Tijuana's red light district in which women are the feature entertainment also operate as brothels, which offer attached hotel rooms for short intervals of time. Many other bars, styled "lady bars", function as less explicit social clubs where prostitutes and nude sex shows are not accommodated on site, but fichas (drinks for the working ladies) are offered at elevated prices, and freelance prostitutes look for clients. These compare in most respects to the hostess bars in Japan. The red light district in Tijuana is also known for street prostitution, particularly...

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