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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]
Juan de Oñate, born in present-day Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico, was the first explorer to arrive at the Rio Grande near El Paso (near the current small town of San Elizario, which is about 30 miles (48 km) downstream of El Paso), where he ordered his expedition party to rest and where the official act of possession, La Toma, was executed and celebrated, on April 30, 1598.
Map of the Chamizal settlement of 1963. The Chamizal dispute was an international land and boundary conflict over contested land (estimates range from 600 to 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]
We had no idea when we started the project earlier this year that 2023 would close out as the deadliest year ever for migrants along the 268 miles of international border in the Border Patrol's El ...
View of El Paso from the Ciudad Juárez side of the border. The first bridge to cross the Rio Grande at El Paso del Norte was built in the time of New Spain, over 250 years ago, from wood hauled in from Santa Fe. [83] Today, this bridge is honored by the modern Santa Fe Street Bridge, and Santa Fe Street in downtown El Paso.
A museum, which details the history of the U.S.–Mexico border, is located inside the visitor center. The park honors the peaceful resolution of the Chamizal dispute , a more than 100-year border dispute between the United States and Mexico that resulted from the natural change of course of the Rio Grande between the cities of El Paso and ...
El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser honored at event with mayors of Juárez, Mexico, and Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Listeners were treated to an adorably candid history lesson by an 8-year-old during ... father-son moment on its social media channel, X. ... Flannery to make appearance at El Paso Chihuahuas ...