# Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Puerto_Palomas%2C_Chihuahua > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Puerto_Palomas%2C_Chihuahua.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Palomas%2C_Chihuahua > Source revision: 1315175124 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Infobox settlement | official_name = Puerto Palomas de Villa | other_name = Palomas | name = | image_skyline = Puertopalomas3.jpg | image_caption = Mexican port of entry at Puerto Palomas | population_total = 4688 | population_as_of = 2010 | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [Mexico](/source/Mexico) | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = [Chihuahua](/source/Chihuahua_(state)) | subdivision_type2 = Municipality | subdivision_name2 = [Ascensión](/source/Ascensi%C3%B3n%2C_Chihuahua) | pushpin_map = Mexico Chihuahua | pushpin_map_caption = Map showing Palomas in Chihuahua state | coordinates = {{coord|31|46|16|N|107|38|08|W|display=inline,title|region:MX_type:city_source:INEGI_scale:25000}} | elevation_m = 1200 | website = {{URL|http://www.palomasmexico.com/}} | image_map = Location Palomas.jpg | map_caption = Map showing Palomas within Mexico | settlement_type = Town }} '''Puerto Palomas de Villa''', also known simply as '''Palomas''' or as '''General Rodrigo M. Quevedo''', is a small town of 4,688[http://mapserver.inegi.org.mx/mgn2k/?s=geo&c=1223 2010 census tables: INEGI] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502025339/http://mapserver.inegi.org.mx/mgn2k/?s=geo&c=1223 |date=2013-05-02 }} people in the [municipality](/source/Municipalities_of_Mexico) of [Ascensión](/source/Ascensi%C3%B3n%2C_Chihuahua), in the [Mexican](/source/Mexico) [state](/source/Mexican_state) of [Chihuahua](/source/Chihuahua_(state)). It [borders](/source/US%E2%80%93Mexico_border) the village of [Columbus, New Mexico](/source/Columbus%2C_New_Mexico), in the [United States](/source/United_States). ==Geography and climate== Palomas is located in the [Chihuahuan Desert](/source/Chihuahuan_Desert) at an approximate elevation of {{Convert|1200|m|ft|abbr=}} above sea level. Because of this rather high elevation, in addition to its location in far north Mexico, it receives about 5 inches of snow each year. ==Tourism== Puerto Palomas is an alternative border crossing for the El Paso area, approximately 90 minutes west of El Paso. ==History== [Pancho Villa](/source/Pancho_Villa) launched his attack on [Columbus, New Mexico](/source/Columbus%2C_New_Mexico), on March 9, 1916, from Palomas. In retaliation, the United States launched the [Pancho Villa Expedition](/source/Pancho_Villa_Expedition), under General [John J. Pershing](/source/John_J._Pershing), to capture him. Notwithstanding more than a year of effort, including one of the first large-scale uses of motorized transport by the [U.S. Army](/source/United_States_Army), Pancho Villa was not captured. During this campaign, a young Lt. [George S. Patton](/source/George_S._Patton), later to be known as General Patton, became famous. During his service and accompanied by ten soldiers of the [6th Infantry Regiment](/source/6th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)), Patton killed two Mexican leaders, including "General" [Julio Cárdenas](/source/Julio_C%C3%A1rdenas), commander of Villa's personal bodyguard. For this action, as well as Patton's affinity for the [Colt Peacemaker](/source/Colt_Single_Action_Army), Pershing titled Patton his "Bandito." Patton's success in this regard gained him a level of fame in the United States, and he was featured in newspapers across the nation.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}} In May 1955, [Che Guevara](/source/Che_Guevara) visited Puerto Palomas for two days following a stop in [Chihuahua City](/source/Chihuahua_City), where he met with Cuban exiles who offered to smuggle small arms from the [United States](/source/United_States) for use by Cuban revolutionaries."Guevara in Northern Mexico, 1955." ''Archivo Histórico del Norteño'', Vol. 3 (1987): 142–147. Guevara insisted on visiting the town to pay his respects to [Pancho Villa](/source/Pancho_Villa), whose legacy he deeply admired. While in Puerto Palomas, he also met with a small group of [Magonista](/source/Magonism) activists and was reportedly impressed by their pamphleteering despite their limited numbers.López Sánchez, A. ''El Eco del Desierto: Magonismo en el Norte Mexicano (1940–1960)''. Monterrey: Editorial Frontera, 1992. During the 1950s, Puerto Palomas exerted a notable influence on Mexican leftist thought despite its small population, owing to its proximity to the [Mexico–United States border](/source/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border) and [Ciudad Juárez](/source/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez). The town’s connections to leftist intellectual circles in Juárez and nearby [El Paso](/source/El_Paso%2C_Texas) made it an active point of exchange for socialist and anarchist ideas in northern Mexico.Ruiz Ortega, M. "La Frontera Roja: Redes Intelectuales y Militancia en el Norte de México, 1945–1965." ''Revista de Estudios Fronterizos'', 12(2), 2004. ==Education== Several public schools are located in Palomas. These schools require fees to be paid from the households of the students.Layton, Lyndsey. "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/children-cross-mexican-border-to-receive-a-us-education/2013/09/20/1237862a-1bdd-11e3-8685-5021e0c41964_story.html Children cross Mexican border to receive a U.S. education]." ''[The Washington Post](/source/The_Washington_Post)''. September 20, 2013. Retrieved on February 28, 2014. As of the 2013–2014 school year, 421 residents of Palomas attend the schools of [Deming Public Schools](/source/Deming_Public_Schools) in the United States. Many children living in Palomas are [U.S. citizens](/source/United_States_citizen) because the U.S. federal and New Mexico state policies allow women in Palomas to give birth in the nearest hospital, which is in Deming, on the U.S. side of the border. Birth in the United States [automatically confers citizenship](/source/jus_solis). Due to the school fees at the public schools in Palomas, the English-language education, and the higher quality facilities in the Deming Public Schools campuses, many parents resident in Palomas prefer to send their children to the schools in the United States. Almost 75% of students at Columbus Elementary School in [Columbus, New Mexico](/source/Columbus%2C_New_Mexico), the DPS school closest to the [Mexico–United States border](/source/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border), live in Palomas and have parents who are Mexicans. {{Gallery |title=Photos of Palomas |align=center |File:puertopalomas2.jpg |The border wall west of Puerto Palomas |File:puertopalomas5.jpg |Statute of Pancho Villa and John Pershing |File:Columbus and Palomas.jpg |In this aerial photograph looking over [Columbus, New Mexico](/source/Columbus%2C_New_Mexico) (foreground), Puerto Palomas is in the center, with its near edge defining the international border. |Puertopalomas6.jpg |The Pink Store |File:Vista 2 5 de Mayo - panoramio.jpg |The high street in 2008 }} ==References== ==External links== * [http://palomasmexico.com/ Official Web Site for Palomas, Mexico (in English)] Category:Populated places in Chihuahua (state) {{Chihuahua}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Palomas%2C_Chihuahua) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Palomas%2C_Chihuahua?action=history)). 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