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'''Río Rico''' is a town located along the [[Rio Grande]] river in the [[Mexico|Mexican]] state of [[Tamaulipas]]. It
==History==
In 1906, the
The land was now physically south of the Rio Grande—the border between [[Mexico]] and the U.S. since 1845—and Mexican authorities unknowingly assumed control of the area, which became known as the [[Horcón Tract]].<ref name="tshaonline">{{cite web |date= 2009 |url = http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrr53|title = Rio Rico, Texas|format = |publisher = [[Handbook of Texas]]| accessdate = December 31, 2009 | last= McDonald, Laurier B. |quote=}}</ref> However, since the course change was due to man-made changes and not natural changes, [[international law]] dictated that the land remained US territory, a fact that was not in dispute. Something of a resort town grew up there during the 1920s and 1930s, with free-flowing liquor and gambling.<ref name="mysanantonio.com">{{cite web |date= June 20, 2004|url = http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA062004.1A.RioRico.1aa310cb.html |title = Border town's story has more twists than Rio Grande|publisher = Rio Grande Valley Bureau | accessdate = December 31, 2009 | last=Castillo, Mariano |quote= |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080207080816/http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA062004.1A.RioRico.1aa310cb.html |archivedate = February 7, 2008}}</ref>
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