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The Rio Grande (Rio del Norte) as mapped in 1718 by Guillaume de L'Isle. Río Grande is Spanish for "Big River" and Río Grande del Norte means "Big River of the North". In English, Rio Grande is pronounced either / ˈ r iː oʊ ˈ ɡ r æ n d / or / ˈ r iː oʊ ˈ ɡ r ɑː n d eɪ /.
Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte or Río Bravo) Gulf of Mexico: 3,108 km 1,931 mi † [n 1] 466,939 km 2 180,286 mi 2 ‡ [n 2] 6,090 x 10 6 m 3 2.15 x 10 11 ft 3 [n 3] Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas: 2
Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. Geologically, the Rio Grande Gorge is a canyon, [1] carved out by erosion over the last several million years. [2] The Rio Grande Gorge and its river follow a topographical low within the larger Rio Grande Rift; a mixture of volcanic activity, shifting tectonic plates, and erosion of layers of gravels and lava yielded the recognizable narrow, deep gorge visible today.
Río Bravo, the name of the Rio Grande in Mexico San Juan River. Pesquería River. Salinas River; Salado River. Sabinas Hidalgo River; Candela River; Sabinas River; Conchos River. Chuviscar River. Sacramento River; San Pedro River; Florida River. Parral River; Balleza River (San Juan River) San Fernando River (Conchos River) Soto La Marina ...
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The Lower Rio Grande Valley (Spanish: Valle del Río Grande), commonly known as the Rio Grande Valley or locally as the Valley or RGV, is a region spanning the border of Texas and Mexico located in a floodplain of the Rio Grande near its mouth. [1] The region includes the southernmost tip of South Texas and a portion of northern Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Map of the Middle Rio Grande Basin showing a section of the Rio Grande Valley (tan) before entering the Socorro Basin to the south. The entire Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico follows the Rio Grande Rift, a structural rift caused by the westward extension of the continental basement of the Western United States during the past 35 million years.
The Rio Grande water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined ...