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Monday8:30am - 6pm
Tuesday8:30am - 6pm
Wednesday8:30am - 6pm
Thursday8:30am - 6pm
Friday8:30am - 6pm
Saturday8:30am - 6pm


Ciudad Juárez is the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Commonly referred to by locals as simply Juárez, and known as Paso del Norte until 1888, Juárez is the seat of the municipality of Juárez with an estimated population of 1.5 million people. The city lies on the Rio Grande river, south of El Paso, Texas, United States. Together with the surrounding areas, the cities form El Paso–Juárez, the second largest binational metropolitan area on the Mexico–U.S. border , with a combined population of over 2.7 million people.There are four international points of entry connecting Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, including the Bridge of the Americas, Ysleta International Bridge, Paso del Norte Bridge and Stanton Street Bridge. These combined allowed 22,958,472 crossings in 2008, making Ciudad Juárez a major point of entry and transportation into the U.S. for all of central northern Mexico. The city has a growing industrial center which is made up in large part by more than 300 maquiladoras located in and around the city. According to a 2007 New York Times article, Ciudad Juárez is now absorbing more new industrial real estate space than any other North American city. In 2008, fDi Magazine designated Ciudad Juárez The City of the Future. Since the launch of the Mexican drug war in 2007, the amount of violence has increased dramatically such that the Sinaloa Cartel attempts to invade the city of Ciudad Juárez from the Juárez Cartel, thus provoking an ongoing war between the two cartels.
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