Río Bravo

American  

[ree-aw vrah-vaw] / ˈri ɔ ˈvrɑ vɔ /

noun

1. Mexican name of Rio Grande.

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Río Bravo British  

/ ˈrio ˈbraβo /

noun

1. the Mexican name for the Rio Grande

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Example Sentences

An early triumph, from 1976, is “Assault on Precinct 13,” a low-budget riff on Howard Hawks’s “Rio Bravo.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Salon

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.

From Salon