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Rio Grande City is a city in and the county seat of Starr County, Texas, United States. [4] The population was 15,317 at the time of the 2020 census . The city is 41 miles (66 km) west of McAllen .
This is a bi-national map showing the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The Rio Grande Valley is not a true valley, but a river delta. "Valley" is often used in the western United States to refer to a large expanse with rivers. Most such valleys, including the Rio Grande, have good agricultural production.
Los Ebanos, Texas–Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Tamaulipas 26°14′22.10″N 98°33′54.30″W / 26.2394722°N 98.5650833°W / 26.2394722; -98.5650833 Rio Grande City–Camargo International Bridge
Immaculate Conception School, located in Rio Grande City and founded in 1884, is the only Catholic school in Starr County and provides a faith-based pre-K through eighth-grade education to approximately 250 students each year. All of the county is in the service area of South Texas College. [19]
South Texas is a geographic and cultural region of the U.S. state of Texas that lies roughly south of—and includes—San Antonio.The southern and western boundary is the Rio Grande, and to the east it is the Gulf of Mexico.
Fronton Island lies between two channels of the Rio Grande immediately downstream of Fronton, Texas, across from Los Guerra in Miguel Alemán Municipality, Tamaulipas. [3] [4] It is located about 12 miles (19 km) downstream of the Falcon Dam [1] and about 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Roma, Texas. [5]
Map of the Chamizal settlement of 1963. The Chamizal dispute was an international land and boundary conflict over contested land (estimates range from 600 to 1,600 acres [240–650 ha; 2.4–6.5 km 2]) along the Mexico–United States border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. [1]
U.S. Highway 83 (US 83), dedicated as the Texas Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway, is a U.S. Highway in the U.S. state of Texas that begins at US 77 (Interstate 69E, I-69E) in Brownsville and follows the Rio Grande to Laredo, then heads north through Abilene to the Oklahoma state line north of Perryton, the seat of Ochiltree County.