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  Rio Grande

  noun

  a river flowing from SW Colorado through central New Mexico and along the boundary between Texas and Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico. 1,800 miles (2,900 km) long.
• Río Grande
  Río Grande

  noun

  a city in NE Puerto Rico.

Rio Grande

¹ American  

[ree-oh grand, gran-dee, grahn-dey, ree-oo grahn-di] / ˈri oʊ ˈgrænd, ˈgræn di, ˈgrɑn deɪ, ˌri ʊ ˈgrɑ̃ dɪ /

noun

1. Mexican Rio Bravo.  a river flowing from SW Colorado through central New Mexico and along the boundary between Texas and Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico. 1,800 miles (2,900 km) long.

2. a river flowing W from SE Brazil into the Paraná River. 650 miles (1,050 km) long.

3. Also called Rio Grande do Sul.  São Pedro do Río Grande do Sul.

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Río Grande ² American  

[ree-oh grahn-dey, -dee, ree-aw grahn-de] / ˈri oʊ ˈgrɑn deɪ, -di, ˈri ɔ ˈgrɑn dɛ /

noun

1. a city in NE Puerto Rico.

2. a river in central Nicaragua, flowing NE to the Caribbean Sea. About 200 miles (320 km) long.

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Rio Grande British  

noun

1. Mexican name: Río Bravo.  a river in North America, rising in SW Colorado and flowing southeast to the Gulf of Mexico, forming the border between the US and Mexico. Length: about 3030 km (1885 miles)

2. a port in SE Brazil, in SE Rio Grande do Sul state: serves as the port for Porto Alegre. Pop: 188 000 (2005 est)

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Rio Grande Cultural  

1. River running east from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico, dividing the United States from Mexico.

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A small army of staff and contractors pour into Starbase every day from neighboring areas, including Brownsville, the biggest city in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and historically one of the poorest places in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

"We'll have the entire system to include a secondary barrier in places we need it -- the water barrier and the Rio Grande River -- and the technology," Scott said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

Monte Carlo Liquors & Steak House is a lone brick island in a large asphalt lot that sits just over 100 feet from the Central Avenue Bridge that stretches over the Rio Grande in Albuquerque.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

He lodged notable breakthroughs in parts of Florida, where he carried Miami-Dade County, and Texas, where he flipped the historically Democratic Rio Grande Valley.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026

North of the Rio Grande the picture is different: as a rule, the possibility of such influences is ignored when not denied.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

For “Un Verano Sin Ti,” he decided to explore the eastern side, near Río Grande and Fajardo.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2022

In Río Grande, just east of San Juan, Milton Falero Santiago decided to keep his restaurant operating with his generator.

From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2022

At three leagues we encountered the Río Grande.

From Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 by Cook, Sherburne Friend

Pipistrellus subflavus clarus was taken along the Río San Diego and the Río Sabinas, both tributaries of the Río Grande, where park-like stands of pecan, cypress, willow and other trees bordered these streams.

From A New Bat (Genus Pipistrellus) from Northeastern Mexico by Baker, Rollin H. (Rollin Harold)

But the Río Grande is the great road of the Valley, to such an extent, indeed, that there are no land roads to speak of.

From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Willcox, Cornélis de Witt