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Ciudad Juárez
Chihuahua, Mexico · North America
About Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez sits on the route: 10 minutes from El Paso.
Ciudad Juárez is in Chihuahua, Mexico, with about 1.5 million people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is El Paso, about 5 km away.
Ciudad Juárez (US: sew-DAHD HWAR-ez; Spanish: [sjuˈðað ˈxwaɾes] ; "Juárez City"), commonly referred to as just Juárez (Lipan: Tsé Táhú'ayá), is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It was known until 1888 as El Paso del Norte ("The North Pass").
It is the seat of the Juárez Municipality with anRead more
estimated metropolitan population of 2.5 million people. Juárez lies on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte), south of El Paso, Texas, United States. Together with the surrounding areas, the cities form El Paso–Juárez, the second largest binational metropolitan area on the Mexico–U.S. border (after San Diego–Tijuana), with a combined population of over 3.4 million people.
Four international points of entry connect Ciudad Juárez and El Paso: the Bridge of the Americas, the Ysleta–Zaragoza International Bridge, the Paso del Norte Bridge, and the Stanton Street Bridge. Combined, these bridges allowed 22,958,472 crossings in 2008, making Ciudad Juárez a major point of entry and transportation into the U.S. for all of central Northern Mexico. The city has a growing industrial center, which in large part is made up by more than 300 maquiladoras (assembly plants) located in and around the city. According to a 2007 New York Times article, Ciudad Juárez was "absorbing more new industrial real estate space than any other North American city". In 2008, fDi Magazine designated Ciudad Juárez "The City of the Future".
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Ciudad Juárez is in Chihuahua, Mexico, about 5 km from El Paso.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 1,512,450
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- Mexico
- Region
- Chihuahua
- Timezone
- America/Ciudad_Juarez
- Coordinates
- 31.7202, -106.4608
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Essential numbers in Mexico
Green Angels (free tourist roadside assistance on federal highways): 078.
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