Ojinaga

Ojinaga
Coordinates: 29 ° 34 ′  N , 104 ° 25 ′  W Ojinaga​ Ojinaga on the map of Chihuahua
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Chihuahua
Municipio	Ojinaga
City foundation	1715
Residents	22,744  (2010)
Detailed data
height	841  m
Post Code	32880
prefix	626
Time zone	UTC −7
City Presidency	Juan Carlos Valdivia Carnero ( PAN )
Website	www.mpioojinaga.gob.mx

Ojinaga is a city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua . It has 22,744 inhabitants (as of 2010) and is located opposite the Texan town of Presidio at the tributary of the Río Conchos into the Rio Grande .

history

The city, founded on June 2, 1715, is named after General Manuel Ojinaga Juarista (1833-1865) and was originally called San Francisco de la Junta de los Ríos . However, the area around today's city was first entered in 1535 by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca († around 1557).

During the Mexican Revolution , the city and its surroundings formed the last bastion in Chihuahua at the end of 1913, which was still controlled by the federales , the federal troops of the Mexican ruler General Victoriano Huerta (1850-1916), and the old Porfirist elites who supported them and his regime . In January 1914 the federales and their entourage were defeated by the Pancho Villas (1878-1923) revolutionary army in the Battle of Ojinaga and driven across the US border. The state of Chihuahua was completely under the control of the revolutionaries.

Ojinaga remained contested even after Villas' revolutionary army was eliminated as a supra-regional power factor in the battles of 1915 and he had sunk back to the status of a guerrilla leader. Twice, in May and November 1917, Villa captured the city and forced the garrison of the Mexican Federal Army to flee to the United States.

Web links

• Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Ojinaga (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER) (Info from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía )