or Ciudad Juárez
City (pop., 2000: 1,187,275), northern Chihuahua state, Mexico.
Located on the Rio Grande opposite El Paso , Texas, it was formerly known as El Paso del Norte and was renamed in 1888 for Mexico's national hero, Benito Juárez , who headquartered there in 1865. Today it is an important border city and functions as the marketing centre for a cotton-growing area. The city has grown greatly since the 1970s because of the increase in the number of export-oriented assembly plants (maquiladoras) located there. It contains the Guadalupe mission (1662).