Municipal Government
SIMAS
Eagle Pass, Tx.
Coahuila State

Best known like Rio Grande in the United States and Rio Bravo (or formally like the Rio Bravo del Norte (Bravo River of the North)) in Mexico, this river is born in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, E.U., flows through the Valley of San Luis towards the south passing by New Mexico through Albuquerque and Las Cruces towards El Paso, Texas until it becomes the limit between Mexico and the United States.

This river has marked from 1848 the border between Mexico and E.U. from the cities of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, down to the Gulf of Mexico. It was through this river that the texan slaves fled to the south of the E.U. looking for their freedom, attended by the Mexican liberal policies of colonization and abolition posture.

The most important international crossings points through this river are Ciudad Juárez with El Paso, Texas; Laredo, Texas with Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; McAllen-Hidalgo, Texas with Reynosa, Tamaulipas; and Brownsville, Texas, with Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Other remarkable border towns are the crossing points between Texas/Coahuila: Acuña, Coahuila with Del Rio, Texas and Piedras Negras, Coahuila with Eagle Pass, Texas.