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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.
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.
No damage was reported in El Paso. Several adobe buildings in Juarez were cracked from roof to ground by the quakes and a vacant building collapsed. El Paso history 1931: Multiple earthquakes rock ...
This week we launched a special report, "'La pérdida - The loss’: Deadly disaster at El Paso, Juárez border." The series, the culmination of a year of reporting, tells the human story of the ...
ABOUT THE SERIES. The El Paso Times embarked on this series in March 2023 after a deadly detention center fire in Juárez, Mexico, killed 40 migrants from half a dozen countries.
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]
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