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Texas El Paso has always been a city of criminals, thieves, marginalized individuals and just vagabonds. Until now, whites do not make up even a sixth of the city’s population. At the same time, the city cannot be called particularly criminal - taking into account the fact that it is located, almost, on the very border of the country. But it can be called fun and noisy: a lot of festivals are held here, hot air balloons are launched annually and the best burritos are prepared in eateries on wheels.

Like any Latin American city, El Paso loves holidays and parties. And it doesn’t matter what exactly they are dedicated to: this is an excellent reason to eat deliciously, have a good drink, dance to your heart’s content and make the children happy.

How to get to El Paso

El Paso Airport accepts flights from Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Denver, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas and other American cities. You can also get to El Paso by Amtrak or one of many national bus companies.

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A little history

In pre-Hispanic times, the territory of El Paso was occupied by Indians, but already in the 17th century Catholic missions began to be built here, and the village began to grow. Today's El Paso stands on the very border between New Mexico, Texas and the Mexican border. Directly opposite is the large Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez. For a long time in the 20th century, Mexicans and North Americans fought for El Paso, so El Paso became the setting for very bloody battles. The Great American Depression hit El Paso very hard, and its economy is still struggling to recover.

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Entertainment and attractions in El Paso

Geographically, the city is divided into several parts by the Franklin Mountains and Fort Bliss. Each region has its own culture and customs.

The West Side is located between the mountains and Mexico and is home to most government offices, hospitals, and a university. Kern Place is also located here, an entertainment district with a number of restaurants and nightclubs. Downtown is located in the south of the city, in the foothills, and here it will be difficult for a traveler to navigate: the layout of this part of the city is very confusing. Here you can find many small shops and cafes, as well as ancient buildings, which are quite beautiful. There is a museum, a theater and the main city square, and nearby, on Via Paisano, is the city zoo. The Northeast is home to the Fort Bliss military base, one of the largest US bases in the world. And the East Side is a rapidly developing, but bedroom and boring area, inhabited by representatives of the middle class.

3 things to do in El Paso:

1. Try something delicious from the Gat Trucks - these kind of restaurants on wheels also sell ice cream, but more often - burritos and gorditas.
2. Stop by the archaeological museum to see a diorama of the prehistoric Pot Cave.
3. Visit the small National Border Patrol Museum - the only museum of its kind in the United States.

One of the most notable attractions of the city is the Desert Gardens of Chihuahua. More than 600 species of plants are planted here, and at the end of April there is an annual festival called Florafest. This is the best time to buy native desert plants like agave, yucca, cacti and so on.

The Centennial Museum organizes permanent and temporary exhibitions, and among the first are exhibitions dedicated to the culture and natural environment of the surrounding lands. Here you can get acquainted with the nature and history of the Chihuahuan Desert. And the museum of archeology displays artifacts and reconstructions of past times, which are quite interesting. The area around the museum is dotted with hiking trails and is a large 15-acre wilderness park with stunning panoramic views from the Franklin Mountains.

The local art gallery “Second Floor”, which is privately owned, is quite famous. Local artists from El Paso and Juarez exhibit here. Entry to the gallery is free. And in the south of the city, near the border, there is a large park - the Camizal National Memorial. It hosts many events throughout the year, including concerts, dance parties, and so on.

In the United States, the legal age to drink is 21 years of age. And in Mexico - from 18 years old. This is reflected in multiple border crossings in the El Paso area.

El Paso is proud to be the home of the original Margarita cocktail. More precisely, it happened on July 4, 1942 by a certain Francisco Pancho Morales, a bartender at the Tommy establishment. Morales simply improvised when a customer ordered a Magnolia, a cocktail for which he did not know the recipe. The only thing the bartender knew was that the order included Cointreau. But what Pancho mixed as a result became not just the alcoholic symbol of Mexico, but also one of the best-selling cocktails in the world. The very word “Margarita” in Spanish simply means “daisy”.

The Likon dairy farm, which is not far from the International Bridge, is also worth attention. There is a small pet zoo with goats, parrots and zebras, but the farm is much more famous for its Asadero cheese. Visitors can even go fishing in the small reservoir.

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El Paso Events

Like any Latin American city, El Paso loves holidays and parties. And it doesn’t matter what exactly they are dedicated to: this is an excellent reason to eat deliciously, have a good drink, dance to your heart’s content and make the children happy. Thus, one of the main events in the cultural life of El Paso is the Amigo Airshow, which is also one of the top ten best air shows in the country. The show is accompanied by a variety of entertainment and performances. Here you can see, for example, Franklin's Flying Circus and the Jet School Bus.

Another signature El Paso event is the KLAQ River Race, which takes place in mid-June. Participants raft the Rio Grande with family and friends. At the end of the races, prizes are awarded not only based on points scored, but also on the basis of the best-looking team and the most colorfully decorated raft.

The PRCA Southwest International Rodeo is a very old American rodeo and is also El Paso's longest running sporting event. The rodeo is ranked among the best by the Professional Cowboy Association and is a charity event.

Many films have been shot in El Paso that required desert-Mexican settings. One of the latest was “The Counselor” by Ridley Scott with M. Fassbender in the title role.

Fiesta de las Flores is the oldest Spanish festival in the American South West. The fiesta lasts 3 days annually, starting on the weekend that coincides with Labor Day, and represents the most significant holiday for all Latino residents of the city. Every year, 20-30 thousand guests come to watch the festival from all over New Mexico, from West Texas and Mexican Chihuahua. During the festival, there is a coronation of the queen, a parade, dances for older guests, and a military parade. Here you can also try the most authentic dishes of local cuisine.

Another signature festival is the Neon Desert Festival, which lasts for two days on the last weekend of May. About 30 events take place on five downtown stages during the festival. And the Texas Showdown festival is dedicated not only to music, but also to tattooing, and it is held in indoor venues. This celebration, which takes place annually on the last weekend of July, claims to be the world's largest tattoo and music festival.

The only El Paso music festival that doesn't take place downtown is Sun City. It will be organized in Askarate Park. This two-day event is the largest electronic dance music festival in Texas. In addition, the city hosts the largest classical film festival in the world: the Plaza Classic, which is organized in the theater of the same name in the first week of August.

Other El Paso holidays include the KLAQ Balloon Festival on Memorial Day, when more than 60 balloons take to the air; Downtown Street Festival on the last weekend of June, the oldest music festival in the city; a free evening summer concert series by the Cool Canyon Knights in mid-August, and free concerts called Al Fresco Fridays featuring jazz, Latin, reggae, salsa, funk and rock acts.

El Paso cuisine

One of the best places to try Mexican food without going to Mexico is, of course, El Paso. Here you will be served Menudo soup with chili and, of course, the obligatory burritos. Don't order burritos in expensive restaurants - it's pointless: take them in the most ordinary eateries, where they are made on homemade tortilla with your choice of filling. The most common El Paso and Juarez burrito flavors are chile con queso, barbacoa with meat, or deshebrada con chile colorabo with meat and red chile.

El Paso- a municipality in the central part of the island of La Palma. Population – 7,514 people (2007). Territory area - 135.92 km².

The municipality of El Paso includes the city of the same name El Paso and several villages.

El Paso is a small town three kilometers from Los Llanos de Aridane, which is famous for its artisanal cigar production.

Also one of the main attractions is old district with buildings built in traditional Canarian style.

In addition, El Paso has a small silk production. Here the entire manufacturing process is done by hand, using only natural dyes. Tourists will be interested in visiting Silk Museum, which shows the entire manufacturing process from the silkworm cocoon to the finished garment.

Under certain weather conditions, near El Paso you can observe a waterfall cloud - which overflows over the top of a rocky ridge and disappears without touching the ground.

Nearby is Paraiso de las Aves Park(Paraíso de las Aves), whose name can be translated as “bird paradise”, here guests can admire many exotic bird species. In addition, the park contains unique samples of the flora of the region.

This city, located in the state of Texas on the very border with Mexico, is perhaps one of the most famous corners of America throughout the world, along with such “grandees” as New York, Chicago or Washington. But El Paso's fame has a somewhat negative connotation. Because, thanks to numerous films and books about the adventures of often completely fictional characters, the city appears as a kind of transit point on the border for all kinds of scammers, smugglers and other active elements who are not entirely on friendly terms with the law.

Without denying the fact that there is no smoke without fire, let’s try, as objectively as possible, to look at El Paso, its history and understand whether it is only such “adventures” that have caused the tourist boom in these places. And in order to completely close the above topic, let us note the following points. Firstly, the history of any city has its “dark” pages. Secondly, El Paso is a border city, and such places always attract keen interest. And finally, thirdly, what was negative in the past is today very successfully “wrapped” in a tourist picture and is presented to travelers as interesting stories.

In fact, modern El Paso is a fairly large city with a developed and balanced economy, aimed primarily at the well-being of local residents. The best confirmation of this is the city development and reconstruction plan adopted in October 2006, involving the public and private sectors, aimed at increasing its attractiveness for residents and visitors. In terms of population, more than 600 thousand people, El Paso is one of the twenty largest cities in America. If we add to this tourists and people who simply transit through the city every day, then the figure turns out to be impressive.

An even more impressive history of the city dates back to the end of the 16th century. According to archival documents, the first Europeans appeared in these areas in 1581. Around the same time the name appeared. As a matter of fact, El Paso is a shortened version of the full name - El Paso del Rio del Norte (that is, the crossing of the river), which the Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate called the beautiful river valley. By the way, located literally “a stone’s throw” from El Paso, its sister city of Ciudad Juarez, in the past was called almost similarly and just as beautifully – El Paso del Norte (pass to the north). It was Juan de Oñate who took formal possession of the territory on April 30, 1598, thereby ensuring continued Spanish dominance for more than two centuries over a vast area that now includes parts of Texas, Mexico, and New Mexico.

By the middle of the 18th century, El Paso had about 5 thousand inhabitants (mostly Spaniards, mestizos and Indians) and became an important trading center in these parts. The vineyards flourished, and with them the production of wine and cognac, which were considered the best in the region at that time. Important and, unfortunately, often bloody events took place in the 19th century. In 1821, with the proclamation of Mexican independence, the city became part of this state. In 1848, after the end of hostilities between the United States and Mexico and the American government paying $15 million to Mexico, a significant part of the territory (including El Paso) became part of the United States.

Subsequently, small periods of prosperity and formation of the city were accompanied by external and internal civil strife, such as the Civil War of the North and South, internal civil war, mass crimes, which remained largely unpunished due to the practical collapse of the law enforcement system. The situation began to change radically only at the very end of the century before last, with the authorities realizing that further developments in this direction would lead to complete collapse. Several reforms were introduced to combat negative vices. And gradually “Sin City” (namely, this was the unofficial name that had stuck to El Paso by that time) began to transform.

The twentieth century was marked by the steady development of the city, the formation of an economy increasingly dependent on the tourism business, and the development of the education system. Let's say the famous University of Texas opened its doors in 1914, as the El Paso State School of Mines and Metallurgy grew up.

This is just a small part of the rich history of this border city, steeped in intrigue and legend. You can get to know it much more and more colorfully on the streets of El Paso, where there are many museums and exhibitions, a significant part of the exhibition of which is dedicated to the past years. If you want to know more, come, look and be surprised...

There is also a small production facility in El Paso that produces polycarbonate visors. Such a canopy, for example over a porch, gives a nice look to the building and, of course, protects from precipitation. The high ductility, strength and flexibility of polycarbonate allows you to make visors of any shape. And with the help of new technologies, it is possible to produce visors of various shapes.

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Full title: El Paso (City of El Paso)
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Year of foundation: 1659
Population (with surrounding area): 800 thousand people
Square: 649 sq. km.

The American city of El Paso is located in the west, on the banks of the Rio Grande River. It is the administrative center of the district of the same name. At the moment, almost six hundred thousand people live in it. Due to its geographical location near the border with Mexico, the city is an important transport hub and an important transit point between Mexico and the United States.

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On the other bank of the Rio Grande, almost opposite El Paso, lies the large Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, forming a border agglomeration with it. To the north of the city center, the Franklin Mountains rise majestically, gradually turning into a mountain range that stretches into New Mexico. Federal Highway No. 10 runs through the city, connecting Florida and California.

The city was founded by Spanish colonialists back in one thousand six hundred and fifty-nine (then the first Catholic missions appeared on the territory of modern El Paso). The city was annexed to Texas in the forty-fifth year of the nineteenth century, after the United States annexed the entire territory of Texas into a separate state. During the development of the Wild West, El Paso acquired the reputation of a place where all sorts of adventurers, robbers and robbers gathered - in a word, everyone who tried, in one way or another, to evade the law.

According to some reports, El Paso is the hottest city on our planet.

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