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226. Basaseachic Falls ( Spanish: Cascada de Basaseachi) on the Basaseachic River is the second-highest waterfall in Mexico, located in the Parque Nacional Basaseachic (Basaseachic Falls National Park) at Cañón Basaseachic in the Copper Canyon region of northwest Mexico, near Creel, Chihuahua. It is 246 meters (807 ft) tall, second in Mexico ...
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 ...
1911. 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).
Casas Grandes. Casas Grandes (Spanish for Great Houses; also known as Paquimé) is a prehistoric archaeological site in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Construction of the site is attributed to the Mogollon culture. Casas Grandes has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the purview of INAH and a "Pueblo Mágico" since 2015.
1,457 m (4,780 ft) Population. (2010) • Total. 55,553. Nuevo Casas Grandes is a city and the seat of the Nuevo Casas Grandes Municipality in northern Mexico. It is located in the northwestern part of the state of Chihuahua, on the Casas Grandes or San Miguel river, situated in a wide, fertile valley on the 4,000-foot Mesa del Norte of the ...
e. More than 500 women were killed between 1993 and 2011 in Ciudad Juárez, a city in northern Mexico. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The murders of women and girls received international attention primarily due to perceived government inaction in preventing the violence and bringing perpetrators to justice. [ 3 ] A narcofosa (mass grave attributed to organized ...
The Third Battle of Ciudad Juarez, or simply the Battle of Juarez, was the final major battle involving the rebels of Francisco "Pancho" Villa. It began on June 15, 1919, when Villa attempted to capture the border city of Ciudad Juarez from the Mexican Army. During the engagement the Villistas provoked an intervention by the United States Army ...