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This is a list of all counties and municipalities (municipios in Spanish) that are directly on the Mexico–United States border. A total of 37 municipalities and 23 counties, spread across 6 Mexican and 4 American states, are located on the border. All entities are listed geographically from west to east.
The Nilwala is a river in Southern Province in Sri Lanka. It originates in Sinharaja Forest Reserve [1] and discharges into the sea at Matara. There is no consensus on how this river got its name. It is believed that the river got its name because, in the past, the river's water was very pure blue and flowed like a blue cloud.
A new town center was constructed on higher ground outside town. [6] Mercedes Mercedes, Texas: Río Rico Río Rico, Tamaulipas: The Thayer Bridge (also called the Río Rico Bridge) was built in 1928 and opened up the Mexican border town of Río Rico as a tourist destination during prohibition with bars and even a casino. [7]
The course of the Charles River was used to indirectly define the border between Massachusetts and Rhode Island. [citation needed] The Merrimack River defines part of the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, which runs parallel to the river, three miles north of it (see Northern boundary of Massachusetts.)
The city of Matamoros is situated in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, on the south bank of the Rio Grande, while the city of Brownsville is located in the U.S. state of Texas, directly north across the bank of the Rio Grande.
Most of the border is settled on the Rio Grande River on the border of Texas and northeastern Mexico. To the left lies San Diego, California and on the right is Tijuana, Baja California. The building in the foreground on the San Diego side is a sewage treatment plant built to clean the Tijuana River .
Reynosa–McAllen, [1] also known as McAllen–Reynosa, [2] or simply as Borderplex, [3] is one of the six international conurbations along the Mexico–U.S border. The city of Reynosa is situated in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, on the southern bank of the Rio Grande, while the city of McAllen is located in the American state of Texas, directly north across the bank of the Rio Grande.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley (Spanish: Valle del Río Grande), commonly known as the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas or locally as the Valley or RGV, is a region spanning the border of Texas and Mexico located in a floodplain of the Rio Grande near its mouth. [1]