Socorro

Socorro occupies the Rio Grande valley in far western Texas, within the United States–Mexico borderlands east of El Paso. Though part of the wider El Paso urban area, it has an identity shaped by the river’s irrigated corridor and the desert plain below the Franklin Mountains. Its defining historic site is the Socorro Mission, formally Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Socorro, founded in 1682 by Piro people who had fled the Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico. The mission remains a tangible link to the region’s Spanish colonial and Indigenous past. See how Socorro relates to El Paso and the Rio Grande borderlands by browsing webcams nearby.

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