USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Founded as El Paso del Norte (at what is now Ciudad Juárez, Mexico) by Spanish Franciscan friars at an important mountain pass, the area became a small agricultural producer though most settlement was south of the river where modern Mexico lies.

Detailed explanation-2: -The strategic site was recognized in 1598 by Juan de Oñate, colonizer of New Mexico, who called it El Paso del Norte (Spanish: “The Pass of the North”).

Detailed explanation-3: -city in Texas, named for the nearby pass where the Rio Grande emerges from the Rockies, Spanish, short for el paso del norte “the northern pass; ” see pass (n. 1).

Detailed explanation-4: -It is in the far southwestern part of the U.S. state of Texas, along Interstate 10. The name comes from “El Paso de Norte", meaning The Passageway to the North. El Paso, Texas.

Detailed explanation-5: -El Paso is located at the westernmost point of Texas. Along the city’s border, the boundaries of the United States and Mexico, the states of Texas and New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Chihuahua meet.