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37 unusual facts about Rio Grande


Angulomastacator

Angulomastacator (meaning "bend chewer", in reference to both the shape of its upper jaw and to the Big Bend area of the Rio Grande, where the type specimen was found) is a genus of duck-billed dinosaur from the Campanian-age (Late Cretaceous) Aguja Formation of Big Bend National Park, Texas.

Bruce Papitto

It is installed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at a park near the Rio Grande (at the corner of Rio Grande Boulevard and Alameda Boulevard).

Cities of the Plain

Eduardo's sidekick, Tiburcio, murders Magdalena by cutting her throat after she steals away from the brothel to meet John Grady at a crossing of the Rio Grande and leave Mexico.

Comanche Trail

The route ran from the Comanche summer hunting grounds to the Rio Grande, where the Spanish had established a line of missions and presidios during the eighteenth century in what was then called New Spain, which the Comanche would raid.

Dan W. Reicher

He was a member of the first group on record to kayak the Yangtze River in China and a National Geographic-sponsored expedition that was the first to navigate the entire 1888 mile Rio Grande.

David Swinford

Swinford went to the Rio Grande region to confer with local officials and observe conditions.

Edmund J. Davis

He also gained the respect and friendship of Spanish-speaking residents on the Rio Grande frontier.

El Paso Subdivision

The line branches off from the Transcon and heads due south, passing through the communities of La Joya and Socorro, New Mexico, before running along the heavily forested Rio Grande.

El Toro Wilderness

In descending order of land area the wilderness is located in parts of the municipalities of Río Grande, Naguabo, Las Piedras, and Canóvanas.

Elephant Butte Dam

Elephant Butte Dam or Elephant Butte Dike is a concrete gravity dam on the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

Franklin Leslie

During 1884 to 1886, he served during the Apache uprisings as a scout for the Fourth Cavalry, and afterward as a mounted customs inspector along the Rio Grande area and became a rancher.

Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians

The Chippewa (also "Ojibwe", "Ojibway", "Chippeway", "Anishinaabe") are the largest Native American group north of the Rio Grande.

Gringo Honeymoon

The title track is thought to be about the singer and a date crossing the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park, Texas, to visit the small Mexican town of Boquillas del Carmen located in the state of Coahuila.

Guillaume Delisle

The map is centered on the interior of what would later become the continental United States and the Mississippi, and it spans the area from the bottom of Lake Superior in the north to the point at which the Rio Grande meets the Gulf of Mexico in the south; the map also extends eastward from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic coast.

Helen Giddings

The State of Texas ordered a political police dragnet across the Federal Interstate Highways of Texas in an attempt to stop Democratic legislators from reaching sanctuary in another state or inside of Texas on property solely operated by the US Federal Government like Big Bend National Park on the Rio Grande.

HLA-DQ8

Most of American cultivars were domesticated south of the Rio Grande (exceptions are Caddo rice and Texas varigated squash, etc.).

Javier O. Huerta

Huerta was born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico and immigrated to the United States with his mother and younger brother, crossing the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) in 1981.

José Joaquín de Herrera

The United States, on the basis of the Republic of Texas's prior claims, now claimed parts of Mexico that were not in the Mexican entity of Texas, i.e. parts of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Chihuahua and Nuevo México across the Rio Grande.

Joshua Cooper Ramo

Ramo was raised in Los Ranchos, New Mexico, on the Rio Grande.

Nataska

Cochiti has "River Men" from the Rio Grande who threaten to carry off naughty children in sacks.

Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa

The film documents a loose-knit desert community in "the Mesa," five miles from the Rio Grande and 25 miles from the nearest town.

Palestinian Brazilian

Sapucaia do Sul, Pelotas, Rio Grande, Chuí, Santa Maria, Venâncio Aires and Porto Alegre (the state capital) are municipalities that are already home to Palestinian communities.

Paradisus Puerto Rico

Paradisus Puerto Rico is the first all-inclusive resort in Puerto Rico, located in the municipality of Río Grande in the Coco Beach area.

Porto Alegre Botanical Garden

Unfortunately these seedlings did not come to the capital, remaining trapped in Rio Grande, where they were planted.

Priscocamelus

Fossil distribution is restricted to two sites in the Rio Grande valley of Texas.

Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego

Portfolio investments announced in 2011 plan the production of 6.9 million units in Tierra del Fuego Province, principally in Río Grande.

Rita Lobato

Rita Lobato Velho Lopes (Rio Grande June 7, 1866 — Rio Pardo January 6, 1954) was the first woman to practice medicine in Brazil.

Robert Gillespie Reid

He built one section of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was responsible for the erection of the international bridge over the Niagara River, the international railway bridge over the Rio Grande and the Lachine bridge over the St. Lawrence.

Roberto Curilovic

At 7.30am this information was passed to the naval air base at Rio Grande (now Hermes Quijada International Airport) on the Tierra del Fuego.

Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro

Texto apresentado na Mesa Redonda "Ecomuseologia" do 8 °Fórum Estadual de Museus/VII Encontro Estadual de Museus de Ciências Naturais "Museus e Globalização"- Sistema Estadual de Museus do RS, Rio Grande: 2002

Spanky Spangler

Another notable Spangler stunt is a successful jump over the Rio Grande in a rocket-powered truck.

The Ballad of Eskimo Nell

Fed up with their sex life at Dead Man's Creek, they travel to the Rio Grande.

The southernmost settlements in the world

The basis of its claim to be the southernmost city rests on it being larger than Ushuaia, Río Grande (Argentina), and Puerto Williams, all of which are further south.

The Two Georges

They also uncover the true culprits: the Holy Alliance, a union of France and Spain controlling almost everything from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn, and Bushell's superior officer and covert fanatic Sons of Liberty sympathizer, Lieutenant General Horace Bragg.

Trying to Stop Your Leaving

For example, in one verse, he compares the situation to throwing a pebble into the Rio Grande, stating that he could "throw in a million more and not slow it down".

William Brinkley

Brinkley's 1978 novel about tennis, Breakpoint, was followed by Peeper, a comedy novel about a voyeur in the small Texas town of Martha, Texas, near the Rio Grande.

William Glenn Sloan

After the war he was a private consultant on irrigation engineering until 1936 when he joined United States Bureau of Reclamation first in the Rio Grande Valley.


8th Cavalry Regiment

From October 1870 to July 1874, Troops "C", "G", "I" and "K" of the 8th Cavalry were stationed at Fort Selden, New Mexico, a territorial fort established on the Rio Grande at the present site of Radium Springs, New Mexico.

Action of 12–17 January 1640

Compelled to sail northwest, the Spanish-Portuguese fleet arrived before Rio Grande closely followed by the Dutch.

Amazon molly

They are native to warm, fresh waters of northeastern Mexico and to the extreme southern parts of the U.S. state of Texas on the Rio Grande and the Nueces River.

Apache–Mexico Wars

At the time the Apache were buffalo hunting nomads who had trading relationships with the Pueblos of the Rio Grande valley.

Cedric Wright

While traveling through the Chama River valley near nightfall on November 1, 1941, they encountered a "fantastic scene", a church and cemetery near Hernandez, New Mexico, and pulled to the side of the road.

Edward D. Muhlenberg

From June 1871 until January 1872, he surveyed the Texas and Pacific Railway from Fort Phantom Hill to Fort Bliss on the Rio Grande.

Embudo River

The Embudo (named after the Spanish word meaning “funnel”) empties into the Rio Grande in the community of Embudo between two distinctively shaped buttes, thus creating a funnel effect after which it is named.

Fort Hancock – El Porvenir International Bridge

The Fort Hancock-El Porvenir International Bridge is an international bridge which crosses the Rio Grande connecting the United States-Mexico border cities of Fort Hancock, Texas and El Porvenir, Chihuahua.

Frederick Walker Pitkin

During his two terms as Governor, he dealt with a number of crises including the railway feud involving the Atchison, Topeka-Santa Fe, and the Denver-Rio Grande rail companies.

Interstate 40 in New Mexico

The route departs the Laguna Pueblo, briefly transits the Tohajiilee Indian Reservation (a chapter of the Navajo Nation), crosses the Rio Puerco and begins a steep climb to the top of a mesa marked by several small cinder cones overlooking the Rio Grande rift and Albuquerque.

James Warner Bellah

Some of his short stories were turned into movies by John Ford, including Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Rio Grande.

José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda

Between December 25, 1748, the date of the foundation of Llera, and 1755, he founded over twenty towns or villages and a number of missions in the colony, including Santander, Soto la Marina, Güemes, Camargo, Reynosa, Mier, and Revilla south of the Rio Grande, and Laredo and Nuestra Señora de los Dolores hacienda north of the Rio Grande.

Los Ebanos Ferry

The Los Ebanos Ferry or El Chalán, formally known as the Los Ebanos-Diaz Ordaz Ferry, is a hand-operated cable ferry that travels across the Rio Grande between Los Ebanos, Texas and Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Tamaulipas.

Mario Torres-Marin

Mario Torres-Marin was a prosecutor for the Puerto Rico Department of Justice who died during a drug-war operation when a Puerto Rico National Guard in which he was being transported to supervise several arrests on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico crashed during severe weather north of Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

Mexican Central Railway

Incorporated in Massachusetts in 1880, it opened the main line in March 1884, linking Mexico City to Ciudad Juárez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso and connections to the Southern Pacific Railroad, Texas and Pacific Railway, and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Mexican tetra

The type species of its genus, it is native to the Nearctic ecozone, originating in the lower Rio Grande and the Neueces and Pecos Rivers in Texas, as well as the central and eastern parts of Mexico.

New Mexico meridian

The New Mexico meridian intersects the principal baseline, i.e. the initial point, above the Rio Grande del Norte, about ten miles (16 km) below the mouth of the Puerco River, on Black Butte just southeast of the village of San Acacia, New Mexico.

Piedras Negras, Coahuila

On 15 June 1850, a group of 34 men (commanded by Andrés Zapata, Gaspar Salazar and Antonio Ramírez) met with Colonel Juan Manuel Maldonado to give the news that they had created a pass point at Piedras Negras, to the right of the Rio Grande, south of Fort Duncan; and having given it the name of: Nueva Villa de Herrera.

Red-billed Streamertail

When the Black-billed Streamertail of eastern Jamaica (found mostly in the parish of Portland) is considered a separate species, the Red-billed Streamertail occurs west of a line from Morant Bay following the Morant River, and via Ginger House and the middle Rio Grande to Port Antonio.

Robert Toombs

Historian William Y. Thompson writes that Toombs was "prepared to vote all necessary supplies to repel invasion. But he did not agree that the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande was a part of Texas. He declared the movement of American forces to the Rio Grande at President Polk's command "was contrary to the laws of this country, a usurpation on the rights of this House, and an aggression on the rights of Mexico.

Ruthe B. Cowl

During a trip to Mexico during the Christmas school vacation in 1952, the family stopped in the Rio Grande border city of Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas to visit people whom they had met through mutual friends in Dallas.

Tiguex War

It was fought in the winter of 1540-41 by the expedition of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado against the twelve or thirteen pueblos of Tiwa Indians as well as other Puebloan tribes along both sides of the Rio Grande, north and south of present-day Bernalillo, New Mexico, in what was called the Tiguex Province.

Utah State Route 128

The gorge widens where the highway passes by Castle Valley and Professor Valley, which have been the shooting locations for many western films (including Wagon Master and Rio Grande) and television commercials.

Workman-Temple family

A few years later, when the independent Republic of Texas and its president, Mirabeau B. Lamar, sought to extend its boundary to the Rio Grande, thereby annexing the principal towns of New Mexico, Workman and Rowland were named agents of the Texans in New Mexico.