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List of Mexico–United States border crossings. Traffic approaching the San Ysidro, San Diego border inspection station. There are 50 places where people can cross the Mexico–United States border. Several large border cities have multiple crossings, often including one or more that bypass the center of the city and are designated for truck ...
This is a list of all counties and municipalities (municipios in Spanish) that are directly on the Mexico–United States border. A total of 37 municipalities and 23 counties, spread across 6 Mexican and 4 American states, are located on the border. All entities are listed geographically from west to east.
Four American states border Mexico: California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. One definition of Northern Mexico includes only the six Mexican states that border the U.S.: Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Sonora and Tamaulipas. [ 1 ] It is the tenth-longest border between two countries in the world.
UTC-7 (Mountain Time Zone) • Summer (DST) UTC-6 (Mountain Time Zone) El Paso and Ciudad Juárez from the ISS, 2014. El Paso–Juárez, also known as Juárez–El Paso, the Borderplex or Paso del Norte, is a transborder agglomeration, on the border between Mexico and the United States. [4] The region is centered on two large cities: Ciudad ...
1,379,230. 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 ...
Brownsville–Matamoros. Matamoros–Brownsville,[1] also known as Brownsville–Matamoros, [2] or simply as the Borderplex, [3] is one of the six transborder agglomerations along the Mexico–United States border. [4] It is part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley region. The city of Matamoros is situated in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, on the ...
Reynosa–McAllen, [1] also known as McAllen–Reynosa, [2] or simply as Borderplex, [3] is one of the six international conurbations along the Mexico–U.S border. The city of Reynosa is situated in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, on the southern bank of the Rio Grande, while the city of McAllen is located in the American state of Texas, directly north across the bank of the Rio Grande.
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 / ˈriːoʊˈɡrænd / or / ˈriːoʊˈɡrɑːndeɪ /. In Mexico, it is known as Río Bravo or Río Bravo del Norte, bravo meaning (among other things) "furious", "agitated" or "wild".