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Ojinaga (Manuel Ojinaga) is a town and seat of the municipality of Ojinaga, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. As of 2015, the town had a total population of 28,040. [ 2 ] It is a rural border town on the U.S.–Mexico border , with the city of Presidio , Texas , directly opposite, on the U.S. side of the border.
Ojinaga Municipality (formally: Manuel Ojinaga ) is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Ojinaga, a rural bordertown on the U.S.-Mexico border. The municipality has an area of 9,500.50 km 2 (3,668.16 sq mi).
Map of Mexico with Chihuahua highlighted. Chihuahua is a state in Northwest Mexico that is divided into 67 municipalities. [1] According to the 2020 Mexican census, Chihuahua is the 12th most populous state with 3,741,869 inhabitants and the largest by land area spanning 247,798.08 square kilometres (95,675.37 sq mi).
Chihuahua, [a] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua, [b] is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico.It is located in the northwestern part of Mexico and is bordered by the states of Sonora to the west, Sinaloa to the southwest, Durango to the south, and Coahuila to the east.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has included the Rio Conchos in its Global 200 Freshwater Ecoregions assessment. The Global 200 is a list of freshwater ecoregions (rivers systems and lakes, for example) that the WWF considers of global importance for biodiversity conservation.
Federal Highway 16 (Spanish: Carretera Federal 16, Fed. 16) is a free part of the federal highways corridors (Spanish: los corredores carreteros federales) of Mexico. [ 3 ] Fed. 16 runs west-east through the northern Sierra Madre Occidental cordillera .
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway completed the Chihuahua-Ojinaga section. [8] Enrique Creel's Chihuahua al Pacífico railroad completed the Chihuahua-Creel section. [8] In 1940, Mexico acquired the rights from Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway. [8] In May 1952, Mexico took possession of a line operated by Mexican Northwestern Railway ...
On September 16, 1882, the first section of the railway line, from Juárez to Chihuahua, built by Ferrocarril Central Mexicano, was inaugurated, which since 1909 belonged to the system of the National Railways of Mexico. On March 8, 1884, communication was opened to Mexico City and on the 23rd passenger and freight trains began to run.