Río Bravo

[ree-aw vrah-vaw]

noun

1. Mexican name of Rio Grande.

Río Bravo

/ ˈrio ˈbraβo /

noun

1. the Mexican name for the Rio Grande

Example Sentences

In Mexico, environmentalists began raising alarms earlier this year after space debris was discovered in the border city of Matamoros, in the Río Bravo — as Mexico calls the Rio Grande — and in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Both scenes take place in a jail; they’re built out of the same kind of conversational fireworks that Howard Hawks used to make “Rio Bravo.”

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In 1984, in a place called Rio Bravo just south of Laredo, Texas, a double-wide trailer burst into flames.

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Rio Bravo was, at the time, a subdivision situated next to the Rio Grande, carved out of rented land by a greedy Texas land developer who sold parcels in “open contracts” to undocumented immigrants.

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“We bathe in the Rio Bravo, which we were told is polluted,” said Edith Waldan, a 29-year-old Honduran who is now in the U.S. but kept her CBP One appointment a secret while in Matamoros because she feared being kidnapped.

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