page_title: El Paso, Texas
section_title: Sites within the city limits
hierarchical_section_title: El Paso, Texas / Arts and culture / Sites within the city limits
caption_attribution_description: English: Asia exibit entrance at El Paso Zoo
context_page_description: El Paso is a city and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, in the far western part of the state. The 2019 population estimate for the city from the U.S. Census was 681,728, making it the 22nd largest city in the United States, the sixth-largest city in Texas, and the second-largest city in the Southwest behind Phoenix, Arizona. Its metropolitan statistical area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth counties in Texas, and has a population of 840,758.
  El Paso stands on the Rio Grande across the Mexico–United States border from Ciudad Juárez, the most populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua with 1.4 million people. Las Cruces, in the neighboring U.S. state of New Mexico, has a population of 215,579. On the U.S. side, the El Paso metropolitan area forms part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces CSA, with a population of 1,060,397.
  Bi-nationally, these three cities form a combined international metropolitan area sometimes referred to as the Paso del Norte or the Borderplex. The region of 2.5 million people constitutes the largest bilingual and binational work force in the Western Hemisphere.
context_section_description: Ysleta Mission is recognized as the oldest continuously operated parish in the State of Texas.
  Cathedral of Saint Patrick erected in 1916 is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of El Paso.
  Chamizal National Memorial
  El Paso Zoo – a 35-acre (14 ha) facility housing 220 species.
  Magoffin Home State Historic Site
  Plaza Hotel
  Union Depot
  El Paso High School
  University of Texas at El Paso The university's distinctive style is a type of fortress architecture, Dzong, found in the present and former Buddhist mountain kingdoms of the Himalayas, Bhutan and Tibet.
caption: Asia exhibit entrance at the El Paso Zoo
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