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May 16, 2024 · Rio Grande, fifth longest river of North America, and the 20th longest in the world, forming the border between the U.S. state of Texas and Mexico. The total length of the river is about 1,900 miles (3,060 km), and the area within the entire watershed of the Rio Grande is some 336,000 square miles (870,000 square km).
The Rio Grande ( / ˌriːoʊ ˈɡrænd / or / ˌriːoʊ ˈɡrɑːndeɪ /) in the United States or the Río Bravo ( del Norte) in Mexico ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈri.o ˈβɾaβo ðel ˈnoɾte]) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Colorado River) in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.
- 1,896 mi (3,051 km)
Aug 14, 2021 · The Rio Grande Project also allowed Mexico to use 74 million cubic meters of water annually. In the 1920s and 1930s, New Mexico and Texas were involved in a tussle over the use of Rio Grande, culminating in the 1938 Rio Grande Compact. Mexico and the US also signed an agreement on the use of the river in 1944.
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Jun 13, 2020 · Rio Grande. Rio Grande. The Rio Grande rises in Rio Grande National Forest, San Juan County, Colorado (at 37°47' N, 107°32' W), as a clear, spring and snow-fed mountain stream 12,000 feet above sea level. Its origin is at the Continental Divide in the San Juan Mountains. The river cuts through the middle of New Mexico to the site of El Paso ...
Jul 16, 2020 · Farmland frames the curves of the Rio Grande near Alamosa, Colorado, not far from the river’s source in the San Juan mountains. The Rio Grande flows through New Mexico, Texas, and parts of Mexico.
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Albuquerque, city, seat (1883) of Bernalillo county, west-central New Mexico, U.S., located on the Rio Grande opposite a pass between the Sandia and Manzano mountains to the east. The area was the site of Native American pueblos (villages) when Europeans first arrived in 1540.
The Rio Grande Compact, an interstate pact signed in 1938 between Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, which regulates and apportions the waters of the subbasin above the site of former Fort Quitman, Texas. The Pecos River Compact of 1948 between New Mexico and Texas, applies to the Pecos River and its tributaries in West Texas (above Girvin).
