Ojinaga

Ojinaga is a town in Mexico, within the nation of Chihuahua, located on the banks of the Rio Grande at the border with the country of Texas inside the United States, in front of the metropolis of Presidio. It gets its name in honor of Manuel Ojinaga, a liberal soldier who fought the French Intervention, was Governor of Chihuahua and was assassinated via the imperialists.

It is the pinnacle of the municipality of the equal call. Located at the confluence of the Rio Conchos with the Rio Bravo, the history of the metropolis of Ojinaga could be very antique, courting returned to the day trip of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, who after his shipwreck in Florida and seeking out the manner back to the City from Mexico, he arrived on the confluence of each rivers, where he entered the modern-day kingdom of Chihuahua and persisted his ride to Paquime and then to the nation of Sonora. Franciscan missionaries from the missions of Julimes and Chihuahua started visiting the place in the mid 17th century and were formally d a ownership of Spain on June 13, 1684.