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The Spanish Christmas Lottery (officially Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad [soɾˈteo e(ɣ)stɾaoɾðiˈnaɾjo ðe naβiˈðað] or simply Lotería de Navidad [loteˈɾi.a ðe naβiˈðað]) is a special draw of Lotería Nacional, the weekly national lottery run by Spain's state-owned Loterías y Apuestas del Estado.
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 El Diario de El Paso is the primary Spanish-language newspaper for the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas.The paper was founded on May 16, 2005, by El Diario de Juárez.It originally started out as a Mexican newspaper circulated throughout Ciudad Juárez under the name Diario de Juárez.
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.
The Bridge of the Americas (BOTA) is a group of international bridges which cross the Rio Grande (Río Bravo) and Texas State Highway Loop 375, connecting the Mexico–United States border cities of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas, via the MX 45 (known as Avenida de las Américas in its Ciudad Juárez section) from the south and the I-110 from the north, crossing the El Paso BOTA ...
The carrier was incorporated October 28, 1880, for a period of 50 years, under the general laws of the State of Texas, as the Rio Grande and El Paso Railroad Company, for the purpose of constructing and operating a railroad in the county of El Paso, Tex. On May 21, 1914, the name of the Rio Grande and El Paso Railroad Company was changed to the ...