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In 1536, the Rio Grande appeared for the first time on a map of New Spain produced by a royal Spanish cartographer. In the autumn of 1540, a military expedition of the Viceroyalty of New Spain led by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, Governor of Nueva Galicia, reached the Tiwa pueblos along the Rio Grande in the future New Mexico. [26]
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The area along the Rio Grande was the source of several major battles, including the Battle of Resaca de la Palma near Brownsville. [18] The war ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which defined the United States' southern border as the Rio Grande. The change in government led to a mass migration from Tamaulipas to ...
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On its north, Mexico shares a 5,000-kilometer border with the United States. The meandering Río Bravo del Norte (known as the Rio Grande in the United States) defines the border from Ciudad Juárez east to the Gulf of Mexico. A series of natural and artificial markers delineate the United States-Mexican border west from Ciudad Juárez to the ...
The Rio Puerco is a tributary of the Rio Grande in the U.S. state of New Mexico. From its source on the west side of the Nacimiento Mountains , it flows about 230 miles (370 km), [ 3 ] generally south to join the Rio Grande about 20 miles (32 km) south of Belen and about 50 miles (80 km) south of Albuquerque .
The Rio Grande water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined ...
Between Pojoaque, New Mexico and Los Alamos, New Mexico: S.H. 502 Bridge: NM 502 Between Pojoaque, New Mexico and Los Alamos, New Mexico: Santa Cruz Bridge: Española, New Mexico: Paseo De Oñate Bridge: Española, New Mexico: Fairview Lane Bridge: Fairview Lane Española, New Mexico: Old S.H. 74 Bridge: Old NM 74 Near Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo: New ...