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Texas Big Bend National Park | Rio Grande Overlook
Written by Shirley T   
Sunday, 10 January 2010 11:49
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If you are traveling from Panther Junction to Rio Grande Village, right after the one-and-only tunnel in Big National Park is the Rio Grande Overlook.
Sierra del Carmen (left), Boquillas Village in Mexico (middle) and Maderas del Carmen (right)
At this point, we were looking across Rio Grande floodplain toward the wild and reached to Mexico's Boquillas and Sierra del Carmen mountains. Above those cliffs, black bear and Montezuma quail roam freely in the Ponderosa pine forest and wildflower meadows. Birds and whitetail deer are also natives to the Sierra del Carmen and often sighted here.
A feel of Chihuahuan desert
Plentiful of cacti
Vastness! Maderaas del Carmen (left) and Rio Grande Village (right)
Rio Grande is the Spanish word for 'Big River'. Flowing over 1,865 miles, the headwater of Rio Grande starts in San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado and ends near Brownsville, Texas into Gulf of Mexico. Of a distance 1,250 miles, Rio Grande serves as the international boundary between the United States and Mexico. In a remote stretch of west Texas, Rio Grande makes a curve to the northeast creating the 'big bend'. And it is here, the wild spirit of 'Big River' lives on!
Spotted the Rio Grande tunnel and our car?
Serving as an irrigation that is shared by Mexico and United States, Rio Grande behaves like a narrow oasis, it winds through Chihuahuan Desert which creates a broad strip of green near Rio Grande Village.

Tranquil. Serene. Peaceful.


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