Juarez, with no room to bury the dead
Juarez, with no room to bury the dead
El Paso Times
Alejandro Martinez Cabrera / Us Border
Posted: 05/15/2012 3:36:43 PM MDT
(Jesus Alcazar / SomosFrontera)
Two of the three municipal cemeteries in Ciudad Juarez has reached its capacity and now only receive a limited number of burials, city officials said.
The Hills cemeteries and burials Chaveņa accept only families that already have other relatives buried there, authorities said in a news release.
The only regular cemetery with burials, San Rafael, has 10.560 lots available, but with an average of eight burials a day, the capacity of the cemetery is at the top in less than four years.
The municipal cemeteries charge for land use. There are at least three private cemeteries in Juarez.
The pantheon Chaveņa, of 29.6 acres, currently 75.839 people buried in their land, but every 15 days or so the remains of a person is buried there.
Hills Cemetery, 49.4 acres of graves and has 135.357 on average every two weeks to receive the remains of three people related to other buried there.
The cemetery of San Rafael has a census of 85.509 11.730 adults and children. It also has the remains of 1.785 individuals who have not been identified and are in mass graves
Authorities said in the press release with expansion plans for the cemetery but has not yet reached a final decision.
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