The name is derived from its being the pass between Mexican and United States territory, and is applied to a number of settlements in the same valley along the Rio Grande. The valley is fertile, and produces wine and brandy, but the town is wretched. A railway bridge over the river connects El Paso with a town of the same name in Texas.
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El Paso, a Mexican town in the State of Chihuahua, on the Rio Grande, 340 miles S.W. of Santa Fe, and near the frontier of New Mexico.