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Spanish explorer Juan de Oñate, born in present-day Zacatecas, Mexico, was the first explorer to arrive at the Rio Grande near El Paso (near the current small town of San Elizario, which is about 30 miles (48 km) downstream of El Paso), where he ordered his expedition party to rest and where the official act of possession, La Toma, was executed and celebrated, on April 30, 1598.
Paso del Norte is a modern opera composed by Mexican Víctor Rasgado.The work is based on a play, which in turn is based on the real story of a group of migrants who become trapped in a train car on their way to the United States, with all but one succumbing to suffocation.
During the French intervention in Mexico (1862–1867), El Paso del Norte served as a temporary stop for republican forces of ousted leader Benito Juárez until he established his government-in-exile in Chihuahua. In 1888, El Paso del Norte was renamed in honor of Juárez. Map of El Paso in 1886.
Paso del Norte may refer to: El Paso–Juárez-Las Cruces, a binational metropolitan area; El Paso, Texas, which grew from a small village called El Paso del Norte; Paso del Norte, the name until 1888 of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; Hotel Paso del Norte, a historic hotel in El Paso, Texas; Paso del Norte Health Foundation, an organization in El Paso ...
Born in Madrid, de Zayas was the daughter of infantry captain Fernando de Zayas y Sotomayor and María Catalina de Barrasa.Her baptism was known to have taken place in the church of San Sebastian on 12 September 1590, and given the fact that most of Spain's well-to-do families baptized their infants days after birth, it may be deduced that de Zayas was born days before this date.
More than 40 years after director Gregory Nava developed the story at the Sundance Institute, "El Norte" screens at this year's festival. Decades later, 'El Norte' returns to its Sundance roots ...
El llano en llamas (translated into English as The Burning Plain and Other Stories, [1] The Plain in Flames, [2] and El Llano in flames [3]) is a collection of short stories written in Spanish by Mexican author Juan Rulfo. The stories were written over several years for different literary magazines, starting in 1945 with They Gave Us The Land. [4]
It is the second historic neighborhood of El Paso, the first being Barrio Chihuahuita. [9] The railroad arrived in El Paso in 1881, and afterwards, the population of El Paso grew quickly. [9] The first resident of Segundo Barrio was a campesino, or farm worker, named Santiago Alvarado, who received a Mexican land grant to farm the area in 1834. [2]