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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.
Juárez has four local newspapers: El Diario, El Mexicano, El PM and Hoy. El Diario de Juárez , [ 79 ] is the founder of El Diario de El Paso . El Norte was a fifth, but it ceased operations on April 2, 2017, following the murder of journalist Miroslava Breach , [ 80 ] the paper explained, the recent killings of several Mexican journalists ...
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 ...
The Rio Grande shifted south between 1852 and 1868, with the most radical shift in the river occurring after a flood in 1864. By 1873 the moving river-center border had cut off approximately 2.4 square kilometers (590 acres) of Mexican territory in the El Paso-Juarez area, in effect transferring the land to the U.S..
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 ...
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]
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.