Chamizal dispute

The Chamizal dispute was a border conflict over around 600 sections of land 2.4 km2 on the Mexico–United States fringe between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. It was brought about by a move in the Rio Grande, as a review introduced in 1852 checked contrasts between the bed of the Rio Grande and the present channel of the waterway. The Chamizal was before the main connection between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez and pressures over the region amid the memorable Taft–Diaz summit nearly brought about the endeavored death of the two presidents on October 16, 1909.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which formally finished the Mexican–American War characterized the global outskirt as the line along center of the most profound divert in the Rio Grande, constantly pair with any variance in its channels or its banks. The Treaty of 1884 expressly acknowledged the universally settled precept that the line of a waterway characterized fringe will pursue the changing way of the limit stream just in light of alluvial testimony, however that separation will not influence the fringe.