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El Paso (/ɛl ˈpæsoʊ/; Spanish: [el ˈpaso] "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the 23rd-largest city in the U.S., the sixth-largest city in Texas, and the second-largest city in the Southwestern United States behind Phoenix, Arizona. The city is also the second-largest majority-Hispanic city in the U.S., with 81% of its population being Hispanic. Its metropolitan statistical area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth counties in Texas, and had a population of 868,859 in 2020. El Paso has consistently been ranked as one of the safest large cities in America.

El Paso stands on the Rio Grande across the Mexico–United States border from Ciudad Juárez, the most-populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua with over 1.5 million people. The Las Cruces area, in the neighboring U.S. state of New Mexico, has a population of 219,561. On the U.S. side, the El Paso metropolitan area forms part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces combined statistical area, with a population of 1,088,420.

Lighthouse is a high tower-shaped building, lighting equipment should be installed in the tower, the location should be prominent, and pay attention to its specific architectural shape, easy for ships to distinguish, and become one of the highest points of the port. As the surface of the earth is curved, the tower must have sufficient height so that the light can be seen by long-distance ships, with a general line-of-sight distance of 15-25 nautical miles, but the light should not be too high so as not to be obscured by high clouds. According to the size and location of the lighthouse, the lighthouse can be guarded or unguarded, and important lighthouses should be guarded. ...
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