Colonia Juárez is a small town in the northern part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Colonia Juárez is located in the valley of the Piedras Verdes River on the western edge of the Chihuahuan Desert and beneath the eastern front of the Sierra Madre Occidental. It is roughly 9 miles north of Mata Ortiz and 12 miles southwest of Nuevo Casas Grandes. The town had a population of 1,035 in 2010.Established in 1886, the colony was named for the Mexican national hero Benito Juárez.