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Juárez-El Paso

Juárez-El Paso is a bi-national metropolitan area of 2.345 million residents1 with Juárez in Chihuahua having 1.321 million2 and El Paso in Texas having 674 thousand,3 separated by the Rio Grande (English)/ Bravo del Norte (Spanish) river. It grew quickly after World War II, at first due to a development program intended to improve conditions for the Mexicans living in border areas in hope of jobs across the border. Later growth in the urban area was due to the cross-border trade that took advantage of the violent opposition to labor organization in the border areas of México. El Paso is attracts American tourists to its museums, desert garden and hiking opportunities.4 Taller than any conventional building in Juárez is the Monumentento a la Méxicanidad, nicknamed 'la X' for its shape (197 feet, 2013). The tallest building in El Paso is the Wells Fargo Plaza (296 feet, 1971).5

External references

View from El Paso, Texas, United States of America, into Juárez, Chihuahua, México

Footnotes

1. 2012 metropolitan figure from world-gazetteer.com, accessed February 6, 2013. An alternate figure comes from "Metropolitan areas in the Americas". World Gazetteer. Archived from the original on 2007-10-01. Retrieved by the author of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_areas_of_Mexico on 8 December 2009, accessed May 15, 2018. The Wikipedia heading says the figure is for 2006, which matches the cited source, but the column heading says 2012.
2. 2010 figure from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Mexico, accessed June 15, 2018.
3. 2013 figure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Texas#100_largest_cities_in_Texas_by_population, accessed May 15, 2018.
4. http://www.touropia.com/best-places-to-visit-in-texas/, accessed May 15, 2018.
5. Information about buildings comes from emporis.com, accessed June 15, 2018. Monumento a la Méxicanidad translates as Monument to Mexicanity. The ASARCO El Paso Copper Smelter Stack (chimney, 1967) was the tallest structure at 828 feet but it was destroyed in 2013.