The municipality covers an area of 808.97 km2 and stands on the US border close to Ciudad Juárez.

[1] Other than the town of Práxedis G. Guerrero, the municipality had 85 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 population in parentheses) was: El Porvenir (1,253), classified as rural.

In fact, much of the population, above all those of school age, leave for nearby Ciudad Juárez, due to the higher level of economic activity there.

Its flora are plants typical of the desert, and its fauna includes species such as the puma and the coyote.

In 2010 20-year-old Marisol Valles García, a criminology student, became the municipality's main chief of police.