Ciudad Juárez

Ciudad Juárez
Ceety
Ciudad Juárez Juarez Ceety
Seal
Eik-name(s):  Gateway o Mexico, Paso del Norte
Motto(s):  Refugio de la libertad, custodia de la republica (Spainyie for "Refuge o liberty, guard o the republic")
Ciudad Juárez
Coordinates: 31°44′22″N 106°29′13″W
Kintra	Mexico
State	Chihuahua
Municipality	Juárez
Foondation	1659
Govrenment
• Municipal preses	Hector Murguia Lardizabal
Area
• Ceety	188 km2 (73 sq mi)
Elevation	1137 m (3,730 ft)
Population  (2010)
• Ceety	1,321,004
• Density	7027/km2 (19290/sq mi)
• Urban	1,321,004
• Metro	1,457,955
• Demonym	Juarense
Time zone	UTC−7 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6 (MDT)
Area code(s)	+52 656
Website	http://www.juarez.gob.mx

Ciudad Juárez (Spaingie pronunciation: [sjuˈðað ˈxwaɾes]), abbreviatit Cd. Juárez, forby kent as Juárez, an umwhile kent as El Paso del Norte, is a ceety an seat o the municipality o Juárez in the Mexican state o Chihuahua. Juárez's estimatit population is 1.5 million fowk. The ceety lies on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte), sooth o El Paso, Texas. El Paso an Ciudad Juárez comprise ane o the lairgest bi-naitional metropolitan auries in the warld wi a combined population o 2.4 million fowk.

Ciudad Juárez is ane o the fastest growin ceeties in the warld despite being cried "the maist violent zone in the warld ootside o declared war zones." In 2001 the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas published a report statin that in Ciudad Juárez “the average annual growth ower the 10-year period 1990-2000 wis 5.3 percent. Juárez experienced muckle heicher population growth than the state o Chihuahua an than Mexico as a whole.”