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Brownsville (/ ˈ b r aʊ n z v ɪ l / BROWNZ-vil) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Cameron County, located on the western Gulf Coast in South Texas, adjacent to the border with Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The city covers 145.2 sq mi (376.066 km 2), and had a population of 186,738 at the 2020 census. [9]
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]
[1] [2] Its county seat is Brownsville. [3] The county was founded in 1848 and is named for Captain Ewen Cameron, [4] a soldier during the Texas Revolution and in the ill-fated Mier Expedition. During the later 19th century and through World War II, Fort Brown was a US Army outpost here, stimulating the development of the city of Brownsville.
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SH 48 begins at an intersection with Business Route 77 and the southern terminus of U.S. Route 281 on the west side of Brownsville. the road travels east through Brownsville on Boca Chica Boulevard, intersecting I-69E/US 77/US 83. It turns northeast at an intersection with SH 4 and past the Port of Brownsville (the former routing travels ...
South Point is located in southern Cameron County at (25.870009, -97.383255 It is located north and west of a bend in the Rio Grande; the bend includes the southernmost point of the river and of Texas, about 2 miles (3 km) south of South Point.
Rio Hondo is located in north-central Cameron County at (26.234451, –97.581364 It is 9 miles (14 km) east of Harlingen, 9 miles (14 km) north of San Benito, and 28 miles (45 km) north of Brownsville.