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500 East San Antonio
El Paso, Texas 79901
Phone: 915-546-2000 |
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El Paso is the seat of
El Paso County, Texas. The
city is situated in the far western corner of Texas. |
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El Paso stands on the Rio Grande river across the
Mexico–United States border from Ciudad Juárez, the
largest city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The two cities,
along with Las Cruces in the neighboring U.S. state of
New Mexico, form a combined international metropolitan
area sometimes referred to as the Paso del Norte or El
Paso–Juárez–Las Cruces. The region of over 2.7 million
people constitutes the largest bilingual and binational
work force in the Western Hemisphere. |
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The city is the headquarters of Western Refining a
Fortune 500 company and three publicly traded companies,
as well as home to the Medical Center of the Americas,
the only medical research and care provider complex in
West Texas and southern New Mexico, and the University
of Texas at El Paso, the city's primary university.
The city hosts the annual Sun Bowl college football
post-season game, the second oldest bowl game in the
country. |
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El Paso has a strong federal and military presence.
William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Biggs Army
Airfield, and Fort Bliss call the city home. Fort Bliss is one of
the largest military complexes of the United States Army
and the largest training area in the United States.
Also headquartered in El Paso are the DEA domestic field
division 7, El Paso Intelligence Center, Joint Task
Force North, U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector, and U.S.
Border Patrol Special Operations Group (SOG). |
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In 2010, El Paso received an All-America City Award.
El Paso has been ranked the safest large city in the
U.S. for four consecutive years and has ranked in the top
three since 1997. As of July 1, 2015, the population
estimate for the city from the U.S. Census was 681,124. Its U.S.
metropolitan area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth
counties in Texas, and has a population of 838,972. The
El Paso MSA forms part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces
CSA, with a population of 1,053,267. |
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Visual View of El Paso |
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| El Paso Downtown |
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| El Paso Sunset |
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