Juarez

Ciudad Juárez
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Ciudad Juárez
— City —
Ciudad Juárez
Juarez City

SealNickname(s): Gateway of Mexico, Paso del Norte
Motto: Refugio de la libertad, custodia de la republica (Spanish for "Refuge of liberty, guard of the republic")


Ciudad Juárez
Coordinates:31°44′22″N 106°29′13″WCoordinates: 31°44′22″N 106°29′13″W
Country Mexico
State Chihuahua
Municipality Juárez
Foundation 1659
Government
• Municipal president Hector Murguia Lardizabal
( PRI)
Area
• City188 km2 (73 sq mi)
Elevation 1,137 m (3,730 ft)
Population (2010)[1]
• City 1,321,004
• Density 7,027/km2 (19,290/sq mi)
• Urban 1,321,004
• Metro 1,457,955
• Demonym Juarense
Time zoneMST (UTC−7)
• Summer (DST) MDT (UTC−6)
Area code(s) +52 656
Website http://www.juarez.gob.mx
Ciudad Juárez (Spanish pronunciation: [sjuˈðad ˈxwaɾes]), formerly known as Paso del Norte,[2] is acity and seat of the municipality of Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Juárez's estimated population is 1.3 million people.[3] The city lies on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte), south of ElPaso, Texas. El Paso and Ciudad Juárez comprise the second largest bi-national metropolitan areas on the Mexico - United States border with a combined population of 2.1 million people.
Ciudad Juárezis one of the fastest growing cities in the world despite being called "the most violent zone in the world outside of declared war zones" in 2009.[4] In 2001 the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallaspublished a report stating that in Ciudad Juárez "the average annual growth over the 10-year period 1990–2000 was 5.3%. Juárez experienced much higher population growth than the state of Chihuahua and thanMexico as a whole."[5]
There are four international ports of entry connecting Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Texas, including the Bridge of the Americas, Ysleta International Bridge, Paso del Norte...