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El Paso del Norte (the present-day Ciudad Juárez), was founded on the south bank of the Río Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande) in 1659 by Spanish conquistadors. The Mission Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe became its first major settlement. Being a grassland then, agriculture flourished and vineyards and fruits constituted the bulk of the regional ...
Ciudad Juárez. 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]
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 ...
www.munihuaraz.gob.pe. Huaraz ([waˈɾas]) (from Quechua: Waraq or Warash, " dawn "), formerly designated as San Sebastián de Huaraz, is a city in Peru. It is the capital of the Ancash Region (State of Ancash) and the seat of government of Huaraz Province. The urban area's population is distributed over the districts of Huaraz and Independencia.
The Sierra Madre Oriental (Spanish: [ˈsjera ˈmaðɾe oɾjenˈtal] ⓘ) is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico.The Sierra Madre Oriental is part of the American Cordillera, a chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western "backbone" of North America, Central America, South America, and Antarctica.
Chamizal dispute. The Chamizal dispute was an international land and boundary conflict over contested land (estimates range from 600–1,600 acres (240–650 ha; 2.4–6.5 km 2)) along the Mexico–United States border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. [1] The conflict was caused by multiple meandering, southward shifts in ...
El Paso, Texas and Paso del Norte, Mexico, Business Directory, 1885 – via University of Texas at El Paso "Ciudad Juarez" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 401. Daniel D. Arreola; James R. Curtis (1994). The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-1441-0.
Terminal map. The airport is located within the El Paso-Juárez urban area, situated 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) to the southeast of Ciudad Juárez's city center. The airport sits at an elevation of 1,190 metres (3,900 ft) above mean sea level. Ciudad Juarez Airport features two runways. The primary runway, 03/21, is 2,700 metres (8,900 ft) in ...