Socorro
Socorro is a city in El Paso County, Texas, United States. It is located on the north bank of the Rio Grande southeast of El Paso, and on the border of Mexico.
- Type: Town with 31,100 residents
- Description: city in El Paso County, Texas, United States of America
- Also known as: “Casey”, “Nuestra Señora de la Inmaculada Concepcion del Pueblo de Socorro”, “Socorro, Texas”, and “Socorro, TX”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Riverside Diversion Dam.
Riverside Diversion Dam
Dam
The Riverside Diversion Dam was a diversion dam on the Rio Grande to the southeast of El Paso, Texas. The dam was owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, and diverted water into the Riverside Canal for use in irrigation in the El Paso Valley. Riverside Diversion Dam is situated 1½ miles west of Socorro.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ysleta and San Elizario.
Ysleta
Suburb
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. Ysleta is situated 3 miles northwest of Socorro.
San Elizario
Town
San Elizario is a city in El Paso County, Texas, United States. Its population was 10,116 at the 2020 census. It is part of the El Paso metropolitan statistical area. San Elizario is situated 5 miles southeast of Socorro.
Socorro
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: El Paso, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.65456° or 31° 39′ 16″ north
Longitude
-106.30332° or 106° 18′ 12″ west
Population
31,100
Elevation
3,661 feet (1,116 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US XSR
Open location code
853MMM3W+RM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Socorro from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Socorro” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سوكورو”
- Basque: “Socorro”
- Cebuano: “Socorro”
- Chechen: “Сокорро”
- Chinese: “Socorro”
- Croatian: “Socorro”
- Czech: “Socorro”
- Danish: “Socorro”
- Dutch: “Socorro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوكورو”
- French: “Socorro”
- German: “Socorro”
- Gilaki: “سؤکؤرؤ”
- Haitian: “Socorro, Texas”
- Haitian: “Socorro”
- Irish: “Socorro”
- Italian: “Socorro”
- Japanese: “ソコロ”
- Ladin: “Socorro”
- Malagasy: “Socorro, Texas”
- Malagasy: “Socorro”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Socorro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Socorro”
- Norwegian: “Socorro”
- Persian: “سوکورو”
- Polish: “Socorro”
- Portuguese: “Socorro”
- Russian: “Сокорро”
- Serbian: “Сокоро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Socorro, Texas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Socorro”
- Slovak: “Socorro”
- South Azerbaijani: “سوکورو، تکزاس”
- Spanish: “Socorro (Texas)”
- Spanish: “Socorro”
- Tatar: “Сокорро (Техас)”
- Tatar: “Сокорро”
- Turkish: “Socorro, Teksas”
- Turkish: “Socorro”
- Ukrainian: “Сокорро”
- Urdu: “سوکرورو، ٹیکساس”
- Uzbek: “Socorro”
- Uzbek: “Соcорро”
- Vietnamese: “Socorro, Texas”
- Vietnamese: “Socorro”
- Welsh: “Socorro, Texas”
- Welsh: “Socorro”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Socorro Mission Cemetery and Nuestra Senora de Socorro Mission.
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