Ciudad Juarez
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Coordinates: 31 ° 44 ′ N , 106 ° 29 ′ W Ciudad Juarez on the map of Chihuahua
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| Country | Mexico | |
| State | Chihuahua | |
| Municipio | Juarez | |
| City foundation | 1659 | |
| Residents | 1,398,400 (2014) | |
| - in the metropolitan area | 1,460,836 | |
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| surface | 221 km 2 | |
| Population density | 5,889 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| height | 1120 m | |
| Waters | Rio Bravo | |
| Post Code | 32000 | |
| prefix | 656 | |
| Time zone | UTC −7 | |
| City Presidency | Javier González Mocken | |
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Ciudad Juarez ( Juarez City ) is a city in the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico and the administrative seat of the Municipio Juarez . It lies on the border with the United States across from El Paso , with which it is connected by four bridges, and at the tributary of the Río Conchos into the Rio Grande . The population is 1,321,004 (2010 census). The metropolitan region of Ciudad Juárez / El Paso has around two million inhabitants.
Since the establishment of the NAFTA Free Trade Area (Mexico, USA and Canada) in 1994, Ciudad Juárez has been one of the fastest growing cities in Mexico, as the settlement of so-called maquiladoras against the background that wages are lower compared to the USA, after investments withdrew.
One effect of the partly uncontrolled immigration are the poor settlements around the city, such as B. the Colonia Anapra in the northwest.
history
On December 8, 1659, Father García de San Francisco founded the Mission Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte in what is now the city . In 1683 the city was called "Presidio Paso del Norte". The city lost its northern part, today's El Paso, as a result of the delimitation laid down in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848). The city was given its current name in 1888 in honor of the Mexican President Benito Juárez .
During the Mexican Revolution , the city was repeatedly a bone of contention between government forces and revolutionaries due to its importance for border traffic to the United States . In the initial phase of the revolution, it was captured on May 10, 1911 by the northern revolutionary troops, under the command of Giuseppe Garibaldi the Younger , Pascual Orozco , Pancho Villa and others. Negotiators for Mexico's long-term president and dictator Porfirio Díaz then signed the Ciudad Juárez Treaty (El Tratado de Ciudad Juárez) with his challenger Francisco Madero, which envisaged the resignation of Díaz and his vice-president and new elections. Díaz then went into exile and Madero was elected president, completing the first phase of the revolution.
population
Due to its proximity to the United States, the city has seen rapid population growth in recent decades. The poor security situation in the city merely weakened the situation.
Population development of the city
| year | population |
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| 1990 | 789.522 |
| 1995 | 995.770 |
| 2000 | 1,187,275 |
| 2005 | 1,301,452 |
| 2010 | 1,321,004 |
| 2014 | 1,398,400 |
Population development in the metropolitan area
| year | population |
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| 1950 | 123,000 |
| 1960 | 253,000 |
| 1970 | 412,000 |
| 1980 | 546,000 |
| 1990 | 809,000 |
| 2000 | 1,223,000 |
| 2010 | 1,334,000 |
| 2017 | 1,461,000 |
crime
The city holds a top position in crime statistics. Of all Mexican cities, it has been hardest hit by the drug war that has raged in Mexico since 2007 . In the city, the Sinaloa cartel and the Juárez cartel are fighting for supremacy. Around 1,600 people were murdered in 2008, 2,657 in 2009, 3,111 in 2010 and 749 in 2012. Under pressure from organized crime, the city's chief police officer, Roberto Orduña Cruz, resigned in February 2009. In addition, there have been several hundred victims since a series of murders against women and girls began. (→ Femicide in Ciudad Juárez ). In 2019, around 1,300 women sought help from the local women's institute, which offers advice from lawyers , social workers and psychologists .
Gregory Nava directed the 2006 film Bordertown about these murders. The documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi and the author Charles Bowden shot the documentary The Contract Killer - Room 164 near Juárez in 2010 . In it, a former contract killer of a cartel speaks about his 20 years of membership. Crime is also discussed in the feature film Sicario .
sons and daughters of the town
- Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso (1905–1994), film actor (stage name: Gilbert Roland )
- Antonio Attolini Lack (1931–2012), architect
- Alberto Guerra (* 1944), football player and coach
- Kitten Natividad (* 1948), pin-up model and actress
- Johnny Jackson (1969–2008), Mexican-American hip hop producer
- Susana Chávez (1974–2011), writer and human rights activist
- Luis Montes (* 1986), football player
- Victor Ulloa (* 1992), football player
Twin cities
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Juazeiro , Brazil
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Chihuahua , Mexico
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Tecoman , Mexico
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Tijuana , Mexico
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El Paso , USA
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Las Cruces , USA
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San Diego , USA
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Ciudad Juárez
Source: WMO
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See also
literature
- Martina Fuchs: Transnational Learning Processes in Cd. Juárez, Mexico: From the maquiladora to the node in the global industrial network. (PDF; 307 kB) Report No. 53. In: INEF . 2001, accessed January 7, 2011 .
- Thousands of people on the run. In: the daily newspaper . December 31, 2010, accessed January 7, 2011 : "According to a recently published study by the Autonomous University of Juarez, at least 32,868 homes were abandoned in the border town."
- Matthias Rüb: Beyond the Rio Grande. Election in Mexico. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 27, 2012, retrieved on June 29, 2012 (Report on the election campaign for the parliamentary elections in Mexico 2012 in Ciudad Juárez).
Web links
Wikinews: Ciudad Juárez - in the news- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Juárez (Spanish)
- Official website of Ciudad Juárez (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Principales resultados por localidad 2010 (ITER) (Info from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía )
- ↑ Historia . juarez.gob.mx. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved on August 1, 2012.
- ↑ Mexico: States and Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Tables. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
- ↑ World Urbanization Prospects - Population Division - United Nations. Retrieved July 23, 2018 .
- ^ Matthias Rüb: Beyond the Rio Grande. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 27, 2012. Retrieved June 29, 2012 .
- ^ Drug mafia forces resignation, In: n-tv , February 21, 2009.
- ↑ Sonja Peteranderl, DER SPIEGEL: The Epicenter of Pain - DER SPIEGEL - Politics. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .
- ^ The contract killer - Room 164. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on August 11, 2014 ; accessed on September 15, 2018 .
- ^ The contract killer - Room 164 , documentation by arte on youtube, 80 min, accessed in January 2014.