Area Information
El Paso Area
El Paso is a city located in El Paso County, Texas, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 800,647. El Paso — second only to San Diego, California, in size among all United States cities on the border with Mexico — lies opposite Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. The two cities form a binational metropolitan area of approximately two million people, divided by the Rio Grande.
El Paso is home to The University of Texas at El Paso (founded 1914 as The Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy, received university status 1967). Fort Bliss, a major United States Army installation, lies to the east and northeast of the city, extending north up to the White Sands Missile Range. The Franklin Mountains extend into El Paso from the north and nearly divide the city into two sections.
- Photos - http://www.epcounty.org/gallery/
- El Paso Convention and Visitors Bureau - http://www.elpasocvb.com/
- For City - http://www.ci.el-paso.tx.us/
- For County – http://www.co.el-paso.tx.us/
- Info - http://www.elpasoinfo.com/
- Chamber of Commerce - http://www.elpaso.org/
Anthony, TX
Anthony is a two-state town, sharing a border with Texas and New Mexico. With a population of only 4,061 (2003 Census), Anthony offers the tranquility and coziness of a small town, but has quick access to larger cities. El Paso, Texas is just 18 miles south on the I-10 and Las Cruces, New Mexico is 20 miles north on the I-10.
Anthony is known as the "Leap Year Capital of the World" and is home to Wet-n-Wild Waterworld. Anthony also hosts an annual Hot Air Balloon Festival.
For more information on the town of Anthony, visit:
www.city-data.com/city/Anthony-Texas.html
Las Cruces, NM
Las Cruces is a city located in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 74,267, making the city the second largest in the state. Las Cruces is the center of an agricultural region irrigated by the Rio Grande, which flows through the city. Las Cruces is also the home of New Mexico State University. NMSU is New Mexico's only land-grant institution, citing more than 23,000 graduate and undergraduate students on the main campus and four branch campuses. The Organ Mountains are to the east of the city. Las Cruces has a city manager mayor-council form of government. It is the county seat of Doña Ana County6.
Las Cruces is also home to the annual Whole Enchilada Fiesta. The fiesta's main attraction is the creation of a very large(on average 10 feet in diameter) flat red enchilada by local restaurant owner Roberto Estrada. Besides this, the fiesta offers live music, rides, food vendors, and other attractions typical of fairs. In fact, the Southern New Mexico State Fair is usually held only a few days after the end of the Whole Enchilada Fiesta. The fiesta's mascot, "Twefie"(taken from the abbreviation of the fiesta's name) is a large red chile pepper wearing a sombrero. At the 2004 event, the Guiness Book of World Records confirmed that Estrada had made the world's largest flat enchilada(there was a record for world's longest rolled enchilada, but not for world's largest flat enchilada).
- For City - http://www.las-cruces.org/
- For City - http://las-cruces.com/
- Chamber of Commerce - http://www.lascruces.org/
- Convention & Visitors Bureau - http://www.lascrucescvb.org/
Southwest – New Mexico and Texas
Other Resources
- Compare Cities http://houseandhome.msn.com/
