Río Rico, Tamaulipas: Difference between revisions

'''Río Rico''' is a village located along the [[Rio Grande]] in the [[Mexico|Mexican]] state of [[Tamaulipas]]. It includes a portion of the '''Horcón Tract''', a narrow {{Convert|461|acre|km2|abbr=|adj=on}} piece of land (including former riverbed) that was north of the meandering river—and thus part of the [[United States|U.S.]] state of [[Texas]]—until an unauthorized diversion of the river to its north cut it off from the rest of the state in 1906. Río Rico developed as a ''de facto'' Mexican settlement, and the [[Mexico–United States border|international border]] was moved under the terms of the [[Boundary Treaty of 1970]], placing the tract and the village in Mexico, effective in 1977.

 

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