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Mexico's first homegrown cartel, run by Ignacia Jasso, was seated in the city, and for a time controlled much of the border drug trade. [24] Today the Juárez Cartel controls the routes in Juárez. Related violence in the city is responsible for more than 1,000 unsolved murders of young women from 1993 to 2003.
Mexico has a 9,330-kilometer coastline, of which 7,338 kilometers face the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California, and the remaining 2,805 kilometers front the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Mexico's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) covers 3,269,386 km 2 (1,262,317 sq mi) and is the 13th largest in the world. It extends 200 mi (320 km ...
Chihuahua is the largest state in Mexico by area, with an area of 247,455 square kilometres (95,543 sq mi), [11] it is slightly larger than the United Kingdom, and slightly smaller than Wyoming, the tenth largest US state by area. The state is consequently known under the nickname El Estado Grande ('The Great State' or 'The Big State').
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Language attitudes and language use in Cd. Juarez, Mexico. Center for Inter-American and Border Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. Let's Go Inc. (2003). Let's Go Southwest USA Adventure (3rd ed.). MacMillan. ISBN 978-0-312-31998-4. Michie, Donald A. (1992). El Paso, Juarez and Las Cruces Fact Book. El Paso, TX: The University of ...
With a population of about 129 million in 2022, [5] Mexico is the 10th most populated country in the world.It is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world and the third-most populous country in the Americas after the United States and Brazil, [6] the most populous city in the country is the capital, Mexico City, with a population of 9.2 million and its metropolitan area is also the ...
Mexico is a newly industrialized and developing country, [17] with the world's 12th-largest economy by both nominal GDP and PPP. Mexico ranks first in the Americas and seventh in the world by the number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. [18] It is also one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries, ranking fifth in natural biodiversity. [19]
On December 30, 1868, General Jerónimo Treviño, governor of the state of Nuevo León, decreed that the "Villa de Juárez" (Juarez's Village) will be founded and recognized in the same area "El Rosario" occupied. As all of the other present-day municipalities of the state, Juárez was part of the system of villages used in the 19th century.