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Ciudad Juárez ( US: / sjuːˌdɑːd ˈhwɑːrɛz / syoo-DAHD HWAR-ez, Spanish: [sjuˈðað ˈxwaɾes] ⓘ; "Juárez City"), commonly referred to as just Juárez ( Lipan: Tsé Táhú'ayá ), is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. [4] It was known until 1888 as El Paso del Norte ("The North Pass"). [5]
UTC-7 ( Mountain Time Zone) • Summer ( DST) UTC-6 ( Mountain Time Zone) El Paso and Ciudad Juárez from the ISS, 2014. El Paso–Juárez, also known as Juárez–El Paso, the Borderplex or Paso del Norte, is a transborder agglomeration, on the border between Mexico and the United States. [4] The region is centered on two large cities: Ciudad ...
The Bridge of the Americas (BOTA) is a group of international bridges which cross the Rio Grande (Río Bravo) and Texas State Highway Loop 375, connecting the Mexico–United States border cities of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas, via the MX 45 (known as Avenida de las Américas in its Ciudad Juárez section) from the south and the I-110 from the north, crossing the El Paso BOTA ...
The Paso del Norte International Bridge is an international bridge which crosses the Rio Grande (Río Bravo) connecting the United States-Mexico border cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
History of El Paso, Texas. Coordinates: 31°47′25″N 106°25′24″W. Founded as El Paso del Norte (at what is now Ciudad Juárez, Mexico) by Spanish Franciscan friars at an important mountain pass, the area became a small agricultural producer though most settlement was south of the river where modern Mexico lies. The city was considered ...
El Paso PDN Port of Entry. / 31.749929; -106.486691. The El Paso Paso del Norte (PDN) Port of Entry is a crossing of the United States–Mexico border, connecting the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas with the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. It is among the busiest border crossings between the two countries: more than 10 million people ...
April–May: Battle of Ciudad Juárez (1911); city taken by revolutionaries. [4] World's "first" aerial reconnaissance flown via airplane (El Paso-Ciudad Juarez), for Mexican government. [7] 1912 - Mexico North Western Railway ( Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua) in operation. [8] 1913 - Battle of Ciudad Juárez (1913).
Chamizal dispute. The Chamizal dispute was a border conflict over around 600 acres (240 ha; 2.4 km 2) on the Mexico–United States border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. [1] It was caused by a shift in the Rio Grande, [2] as a survey presented in 1852 marked differences between the bed of the Rio Grande (in Spanish: Río ...