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Eating

10 Amigos E4

11 Aroma Restaurant D4

12 Chicos Tacos F3

13 Crisostomo C2

14 Geogeske D4

15 Kinley's House Coffee & Tea D4

16 L&J Cafe E4

17 Rib Hut D4

18 State Line B2

19 Taco Cabana G3

20 Tom's Folk Cafe D4

Drinking & Nightlife

21 Aceitunas A1

22 Club 101 H4

23 Hope & Anchor D3

24 Hoppy Monk C3

Shopping

25 Cielo Vista Mall H4

26 El Paso Saddleblanket G4

27 Sunland Park Mall B2

History
Native Americans had already settled the El Paso area for thousands of years when Span-
ish explorers first arrived in the 1530s. What is now the Mexican city of Juárez was foun-
ded in 1659 as 'El Paso del Norte,' but it wasn't until 1827 that the first permanent settle-
ments were established on the northern banks of the Rio Grande on the site of what we
now know as El Paso.
By 1873, El Paso had been incorporated as a Texas city, and the Southern Pacific Rail-
road came to town in 1881, bringing with it gunfighters like John Wesley Hardin and
kicking off El Paso's Wild West era.
In 1911, the Mexican Revolution, led by Pancho Villa, sent many Mexicans fleeing
from Juárez to safety in El Paso, but it also stirred up controversy over the precise location