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It's certainly true that if we had a more stable Mexico that has reason to invest more in the North, we'll almost certainly see a port town there. The perfect set-up is actually what's suggested in this thread. Mexico discovers California gold early on, and this helps Iturbide's Empire...

I respect that a lot. There are people on this site who will just outright refuse to do that.

@Bear Ribs ...you're referencing an article about a town in Texas. I'm sorry, but I can't really take that seriously. You want to be right, but you want to be right to the point where you're just going off trying to find an article to "prove your point"... not even checking whether the article...

1. Using superfluous punctuation makes you seem like a denizen of Tumblr, it doesn't make your words more true. 2. I refer you to the Spanish wikipedia page. Say, what does that page -- which is much more detailed -- tell us? It tells us that there was never any major port there, preceisely...

There's a bunch of giant honking mountains along the continental divide.

There was nothing there before California started sucking up all the Colorado's water, either. Mexico clearly did see border-towns grow into veritable cities due to cross-border opportunities. There are loads of examples of that. So if the Colorado was such a great access point (up until...

There's literally nothing there in OTL. I realise that the fact that it's in Mexico while the Colorado River's hinterlands are in the USA, but still -- this would be a place where Mexico could profit from owning the access point to the US hinterland, wouldn't it? If a port there is so useful...

The distances involved make this case a no-brainer, though. If you're coming up or down the West Coast, you can stop in (say) Los Angeles and then move on. If you go to the mouth of the Colorado instead, you then first have to needlessly move up the length of the peninsula if you're coming from...

Quite many, since I think it would include the bulk of OTL Southern California. But a lot depends on what route is used for the trans-continental rail-road. That strikes me as very impractical.

I assume the USA gets Baja California, too. This means that California probably becomes two states from the start. And the Southern one (with Los Angeles as its Northernmost city) is going to be a slave state by default. Although possibly not a very enthousiastic one. The coast of Arizona is in...