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The discharge of the Devils River, as measured at IBWC gaging station 08-4494.00 near the river's mouth, averages 362 cubic feet per second (10.3 m 3 /s), with a maximum of 122,895 cubic feet per second (3,480 m 3 /s) and a minimum of 54 cubic feet per second (1.53 m 3 /s).
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 ]
The Devils River minnow is present in the Devils River in southern Texas, the San Felipe Creek, Sycamore Creek, Pinto Creek and Las Moras Creek in Val Verde County and Kinney County in southern Texas. [4] There are also records in Coahuila, Mexico, the Río San Carlos, and Río Salado drainages in the 1970s. [4]
The Devils River Limestone is a geologic formation in Texas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period. See also. Earth sciences portal; Texas portal;
Devils River is the name of several rivers. These include: Devil's River, Bulgaria; Devils River (Jamaica) Devils River (Michigan) Devils River (Texas)
Shivers along the great gray hunch of the Devil's back. Hissing over every ancient stone. Rising from the river, the wind picks up speed, hastening toward the woods.
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 ...
The Battle of Devil's River was an 1857 Indian War skirmish which took place in Texas along the Devils River. A small force of United States Army cavalry defeated an overwhelming force of Comanche braves after an epic journey across the desert.