USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The river runs 1, 255 miles along the international boundary with Mexico. The study area of the USIBWC CRP Rio Grande Basin encompasses this international reach of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo from the New Mexico/ Texas/ Chihuahua border (El Paso/Cuidad Juarez area) to the Gulf of Mexico (Brownsville/ Matamoros area).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Rio Grande serves as the border here. “The Rio Grande is a natural border, has been since 1848, and the ties between cities and towns on either side are strong, ” CNN’s Gregory Krieg reported.

Detailed explanation-3: -After the Mexican-American War-during Texas’ first round of being a U.S. state-the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo established the Rio Grande as the border between the United States and Mexico. People living along some parts of the river woke up as part of a different country.

Detailed explanation-4: -The major international border crossings along the river are at Ciudad Juárez and El Paso; Presidio and Ojinaga; Laredo and Nuevo Laredo; McAllen and Reynosa; and Brownsville and Matamoros. Other notable border towns are the Texas/Coahuila pairings of Del Rio–Ciudad Acuña and Eagle Pass–Piedras Negras.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.