Rio Grande

Rio Grande City is a city in and the county seat of Starr County, Texas. The populace changed into 13,834 on the 2010 census. The city is 41 miles west of McAllen. The town also holds the March report high for the USA at 108 levels Fahrenheit. The metropolis is attached to Camargo, Tamaulipas, via the Rio Grande City–Camargo International Bridge. The location around Rio Grande City was first populated in 1846, when it served as a transfer point for supplies and squaddies helping General Zachary Taylor's invasion of Mexico.

It was a logical factor for alternate, as it was the best factor up the Rio Grande for reliable steamboat site visitors, and intersected a number of overland routes to Saltillo, Monterrey, and Northern Mexico. During the early tiers of the Mexican American War, one of the soldiers stationed here, Henry Clay Davis, married Hilaria de la Garza Falcon, a resident of Camargo and heiress to the land on which Rio Grande City now sits.