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The Devils River in southwestern Texas, part of the Rio Grande drainage basin, has limited areas of whitewater along its length. It begins in northwest Sutton County , at 30°19′40″N 100°56′31″W / 30.32778°N 100.94194°W / 30.32778; -100.94194 , [ 1 ] where six watercourses come together, Dry Devils River, Granger Draw ...
Devils River State Natural Area is a 37,000-acre (15,000 ha) section of three ecosystems, the Edwards Plateau, the Tamaulipan mezquital and the Chihuahuan Desert. It is located 66 miles (106 km) north of Del Rio , Val Verde County in the U.S. state of Texas . [ 2 ]
Amistad National Recreation Area is a national recreation area managed by National Park Service (NPS) that includes the area around the Amistad Reservoir at the confluence of the Rio Grande, the Devils River, and the Pecos River near Del Rio in Val Verde County, Texas. [3]
Amistad Reservoir (Spanish: Presa Amistad) is a reservoir on the Rio Grande at its confluence with the Devils River 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Del Rio, Texas.The lake is bounded by Val Verde County on the United States side of the international border and by the state of Coahuila on the Mexican side of the border; the American shoreline forms the Amistad National Recreation Area.
San Pedro Creek, a stream in Val Verde County, Texas, formerly a tributary of Devils River. It is now flows into the east side of Amistad Reservoir at an elevation of 1135 feet. San Pedro Creek has its source at 29°33′34″N 100°38′19″W / 29.55944°N 100.63861°W / 29.55944; -100.
Beaver Lake was first encountered upstream of the head of Devil's River by the 1849 U. S. Army military expedition that established the San Antonio-El Paso Road. It was described by Robert A. Eccleston, one of a party of forty-niners traveling with the expedition. In Eccleston's diary of that trip he writes about the lake they camped near from ...
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A Devils River minnow Conservation Team was formed as a result of the agreement to enact its provisions. Fortunately, important portions of the species’ habitat is owned by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Nature Conservancy of Texas, but a substantial amount lies on privately owned land, [4] 10. To assist these landowners, the ...