About El Paso, Texas
RE/MAX Elite is happy to offer this guided tour of El Paso. Our city’s rich history and cultural heritage goes back to the time of the ancient Indians and continues in an unending adventure of conquest and settlement. 

Even the geography of El Paso is worthy of attention. As the southern most tip of the Rocky Mountains, our Franklin Mountains cut through the city and create even smaller communities on each side. It is the Westside, Eastside, Southside and Northeast divisions that create the small town atmosphere within our big city of over 600,000 people. 

El Paso offers not only beauty and culture, but one priceless commodity that must not be understated: a safe- family oriented community. Our city cherishes its families. We all pitch in to make this a better place in which to live. To that end, we have created one of the safest cities in the United States with populations over 500,000 according to Morgan Quitno of Lawrence, Kansas who did a study of the crime rates of 322 cities that report murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and burglary and auto-theft statistics to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For more information on this report please visit www.morganquitno.com  

Quick Bits about El Paso, TX
The Spanish originally named the area “Paseo del Norte” or Pass of the North in the late 1500’s 

The population of El Paso is approximately 600,000 and Juarez, Mexico our sister city has about 1,500,000 

El Paso is located in Mountain Standard Time Zone 

The average rain fall is 8.81 inches 

The Franklin Mountains, which divide the city, are the southern ridge of the Rocky Mountains 

El Paso is located in the Chihuahuan Desert, one of the largest desert areas in the world 

El Paso is home to Ft Bliss, the largest Air Defense Center in the world 

The Mission Churches of Ysleta and Socorro are considered to be the oldest of their kind in the country. 

Billy the Kid, Poncho Villa and John Wesley Hardin all roamed this area. 

The oldest road in the United States, the “Camino Real” or the King’s Highway leads through El Paso. The Spanish Conquistadors traveled north along this road on their search for gold and land.
 

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