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.
a river flowing W from SE Brazil into the Paraná River. 650 miles (1,050 km) long.
Also called Rio Grande do Sul. São Pedro do Río Grande do Sul.
a city in NE Puerto Rico.
a river in central Nicaragua, flowing NE to the Caribbean Sea. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
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)
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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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
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
"Life is brutal, but it is also a paradise, and it's about going through many different moments," said Sonza, who is from Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 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
It sticks its big old Panhandle up north and it slops and slouches along the Rio Grande.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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
The Río Casas Grandes must have once been a tributary of the Río Grande, but now its desert drainage basin is isolated.
From Occurrence of the Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains by Fitch, Henry S.
Relationships and phylogeny.—The basin of Cuatro Ciénegas now drains, via the Río Salado, into the lower Río Grande.
From A New Supspecies of Slider Turtle (Pseudemys scripta) from Coahuila, Mexico by Legler, John M.
The barrier beach which lay to the north of the inlet extended sixty-odd miles northward to the delta of the Río Grande and had, we were told, eight "passes," including Paso Jesús María.
From Mammals Obtained by Dr. Curt von Wedel from the Barrier Beach of Tamaulipas, Mexico by Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
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