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The Rio Grande
A tour of the Rio Grande and its surrounding area.
Regional Planning, Vol. 6
Excerpt from Regional Planning, Vol. 6: The Rio Grande Joint Investigation in the Upper Rio Grande Basin in Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, 1936-1937 Rio Grande is an interstate and an international stream. It rises in Colorado and flows southward for more than 400 miles across New Mexico. After leav ing New Mexico, it forms the boundary between Texas and the Republic of Mexico for about miles to its mouth. The total length of the river is about miles. With respect to usage of water and the problems concerned with that usage, the river is divided into two distinct sections at Fort Quitman, or at the narrow gorge a few miles below. Above this nearly all the water of the river is being consum...
The Rio Grande, River of Destiny
The Rio Grande: River of Destiny, is a monumental study of the Rio Grande and the people along its banks: "Near the once-fabulous, now-ghost town of Creede, Colorado, flow the springs and the trickles of melting snow which make the Rio Grande. Here at 14,000 feet, is born a river which irrigates 1,751,700 acres of farmland in the United States and Mexico. In the course of its violent, precipitous, meandering, laze descent to the Gulf of Mexico 1800 miles away, the Rio Grande is beauty and history and legend and economics and social problems - a touchstone river of American life, a river of destiny indeed." -- Excerpt from Book Jacket.
The Rio Grande
Starting life in the San Juan Mountains in southern Colorado, the Rio Grande flows south through New Mexico and then southeast, creating the border between Texas and Mexico on its journey to the Gulf of Mexico. The Rio Grande flows through a desertlike area. As the river reaches the ocean, its limited supply of water is all but used up by the many farms and cities along its banks. Book jacket.
