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El Paso (/ ɛ l ˈ p æ s oʊ /; Spanish: [el ˈpaso]; lit. ' the pass ' or ' the step ') is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the U.S., the most populous city in West Texas, and the sixth-most populous city in Texas.
The El Paso–Juárez region is the largest bilingual, binational work force in the Western Hemisphere. [9] This region is commonly subdivided into the Juárez Metropolitan Area (Zona Metropolitana de Juárez) in Chihuahua, Greater El Paso in Texas and Greater Las Cruces [broken anchor] in New Mexico.
D+17 [3] Texas's 16th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives includes almost all of El Paso and most of its suburbs in the state of Texas. The current Representative is Democrat Veronica Escobar . The district was initially created in 1903. For most of the next six decades, it stretched across 42,000 square miles ...
El Paso County, Texas. / 31.77°N 106.24°W / 31.77; -106.24. El Paso County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 865,657, [1] making it the ninth-most populous county in the state of Texas. Its seat is the city of El Paso, [2] the sixth-most populous city in Texas and the 22nd ...
History of El Paso, Texas. Coordinates: 31°47′25″N 106°25′24″W. Founded as El Paso del Norte (at what is now Ciudad Juárez, Mexico) by Spanish Franciscan friars at an important mountain pass, the area became a small agricultural producer though most settlement was south of the river where modern Mexico lies. The city was considered ...
El Paso metropolitan area. The El Paso metropolitan area, officially the El Paso metropolitan statistical area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties – El Paso and (since 2013) Hudspeth – in far West Texas, anchored by the city of El Paso. As of the 2020 United States Census, the MSA had a ...
1888 - El Paso del Norte renamed "Juárez" in honor of Benito Juárez. leaving El Paso, Texas the sole El Paso. 1889 – McGinty Club active. 1890 – Population: 10,338. 1892 – Santa Fe Street bridge built. 1895 – El Paso Public Library founded. 1898 - Zion Lutheran Church is established. It is the first Lutheran Church in El Paso.
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 ...