Mission Valley is an area of

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, United States, which includes part of Eastside and all Lower Valley districts. It is the third largest area of the city, behind

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and

Central El Paso Central El Paso is part of the city of El Paso, Texas, and contains some of the city's oldest and most historic neighborhoods. Located in the heart of the city, it is home to approximately 130,000 people. Development of central El Paso st ...

. Hawkins Road and Interstate 10 border the Mission Valley. This location is considered the oldest area of El Paso, dating back to the late 17th century when present-day

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was under the rule of

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(New Spain). In 1680 the Isleta Pueblo tribe revolted against the Spaniards who were pushed south to what is now El Paso. Some Spaniards and tribe members settled here permanently. Soon afterward, three Spanish missions were built; they remain standing, currently functioning as churches:

Ysleta Mission The Ysleta Mission, located in the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo within the municipality of El Paso, Texas, is recognized as the oldest continuously operated parish in the State of Texas. The Ysleta community is also recognized as the oldest in Texas and c ...

-1682 (La Misión de Corpus Christi y de San Antonio de la Ysleta del Sur/Our Lady of Mt. Carmel), Socorro Mission-1759 (Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción del Socorro)-1759 and

San Elizario Chapel The Presidio Chapel of San Elizario ( es, La Capilla de San Elcear) was built in 1877 at the same place where an earlier Mexican chapel stood. The building is located in the central square of San Elizario, 17.5 miles south-southeast of El Paso. It ...

(Capilla de San Elcear)-1789. On April 30, 1598, the northward-bound Spanish and New World Spanish conquistadors crossed large sand dunes about 27 miles south of present-day Downtown El Paso. It is said that the expeditionaries and their horses ran toward the river. Don Juan de Oñate, a New Spain-born conquistador of Spanish parents, was an expedition leader who ordered a big feast north of the Río Grande in what is now Socorro, Texas. This was the first documented and true Thanksgiving in North America. Oñate declared

La Toma ''La Toma'' (Spanish: ''The taking'') was a legal declaration made by Don Juan de Oñate on 30 April 1598 in present-day San Elizario, Texas. It stated that Spain was taking possession of all territory north of the Rio Grande for King Philip II of ...

(taking possession), claiming all territory north of the Río Grande for King Philip II of Spain.

Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo Ysleta del Sur Pueblo (also Tigua Pueblo) is a Puebloan Native American tribal entity in the Ysleta section of El Paso, Texas. Its members are Southern Tiwa people who had been displaced from Spanish New Mexico from 1680 to 1681 during the Pueblo ...

(related to the insurgent Isleta Pueblo Tribe) is also located in this valley. The Tigua (pronounced Tiwa) is one of three Indian tribes in Texas whose sovereignty is recognized by the United States Government. Ysleta is spelled with a "Y" because 19th-century script did not differentiate between a capital "Y" and a capital "I." Some people in this area and its twin city across the river, Ciudad Juárez, are direct descendants of the Spaniards.

Neighborhoods

Here is a list of some neighborhoods in the Mission Valley: * Alta Vista * Cedar Grove Park * Del Norte Heights * Hacienda Heights * Hidden Valley * Lakeside * Marion Manor * Loma Terrace * Mesa Vista * Thomas Manor * Rosedale Manor * San José * Tigua *

Ysleta Ysleta is a community in El Paso, Texas, United States. Ysleta was settled between October 9 and October 12, 1680, when Spanish conquistadors, Franciscan clerics and Tigua Indians took refuge along the southern bank of the Rio Grande. These pe ...

* Walnut Acres

References

Geography of El Paso, Texas {{ElPasoCountyTX-geo-stub