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Juan de Oñate, born in present-day Zacatecas, 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.
Arizona Either from árida zona, meaning "Arid Zone", or from a Spanish word of Basque origin meaning "The Good Oak"; California (from the name of a fictional island country in Las sergas de Esplandián, a popular Spanish chivalric romance by Garci Rodríguez de Mon talvo)
El Paso (/ ɛ l ˈ p æ s oʊ /; Spanish: [el ˈpaso]; lit. ' the route ' or ' the pass ') is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, [5] making it the 22nd-most populous city in the U.S., the most populous city in West Texas, and the sixth-most populous city in Texas. [8]
The name Texas derives from táysha ... and the new country of Mexico was formed from much of the lands that had ... El Paso counted 39,000; Austin, the capital ...
In addition, several thousand New Mexicans lived in the areas of Paso del Norte (now El Paso, Texas) and Nuevo Santander, incorporating Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley. During the 1820s, many settlers from the United States and other nations moved to Mexican Texas , mostly in the eastern area.
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo or Tigua Pueblo is a Native American Pueblo and federally recognized tribe in the Ysleta section of El Paso, Texas.Its members are Southern Tiwa people who had been displaced from Spanish New Mexico from 1680 to 1681 during the Pueblo Revolt against the Spaniards.
El Paso County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census , the population was 865,657, [ 1 ] making it the ninth-most populous county in the state of Texas . Its seat is the city of El Paso , [ 2 ] the sixth-most populous city in Texas and the 22nd-most populous city in the United States .
View history; General What links here; Related changes; Upload file; Special pages; ... El Paso, Texas is a city in El Paso County, Texas, U.S. El Paso (Spanish, ...