Chihuahua Information
(chēwä´wä) , state (1990 pop. 2,441,873), 94,831 sq mi (245,612 sq km), N Mexico, on the border of N.Mex. and Texas.
The city of Chihuahua is the capital.
Largest of the Mexican states, Chihuahua is divided into two regionsthe mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental
to the west, and the vast, cactus-and-greasewood desert basins, broken by scattered barren ranges, to the north and east.
In extreme E Chihuahua and W Coahuila is a desolate basin, the Bolsón de Mapimí.
At Nuevo Casas Grandes, in NW Chihuahua, is Paquimé, a vast and important archaeological site.