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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-day, 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-day, -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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On Tuesday, the Latin Grammy-winning artist defeated Republican incumbent Monica De La Cruz in Congressional District 15, a narrow geographical area that extends east of San Antonio down to Rio Grande Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

She instead nods to it by saying that she’d be the first governor from the Rio Grande Valley, which for Texans may as well mean the same thing.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

The politics of the Rio Grande Valley are also different.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

She, like Pulido, grew up in the border area known as the Rio Grande Valley -- but her father was not a Tejano music pioneer.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Immigration and Naturalization Service based in Cotulla, halfway along a seven- to eight-day walk between the Rio Grande at Nuevo Laredo and San Antonio.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

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

Actually all valid records of the species sirtalis from the vicinity of the Río Grande are from the El Paso region or from farther north.

From Occurrence of the Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains by Henry S. Fitch

Comparison of bullatus with angusticeps, which occurs across the Río Grande but not directly opposite the range of bullatus, indicates that these two subspecies are less closely related than bullatus is to tamaulipensis and convexus.

From by

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 E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

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