Ciudad Juárez

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Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez
Juarez Ceety
Official seal of Ciudad Juárez
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 is located in Mexico
Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez
Coordinates: 31°44′22″N 106°29′13″W / 31.73944°N 106.48694°W / 31.73944; -106.48694
Kintra Mexico
StateChihuahua
MunicipalityJuárez
Foondation1659
Govrenment
 • Municipal presesHector Murguia Lardizabal
Area
 • Ceety188 km2 (73 sq mi)
Elevation
1137 m (3,730 ft)
Population
 (2010)[1]
 • Ceety1,321,004
 • Density7027/km2 (19290/sq mi)
 • Urban
1,321,004
 • Metro
1,457,955
 • Demonym
Juarense
Time zoneUTC−7 (MST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−6 (MDT)
Area code(s)+52 656
Websitehttp://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.[2] 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."[3] 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.”[4]

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  1. 2010 census tables: INEGI Archived 2018-12-25 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2011-04-29.
  2. Chamberlain, Lisa (March 28, 2007.). "2 Cities and 4 Bridges Where Commerce Flows". The New York Times. Retrieved March 5, 2009.. Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  3. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/breaking/6679334.html
  4. http://www.dallasfed.org/research/busfront/bus0102.html Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine