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Rio Grande

The Rio Grande is less a trade river than a border drawn in water: for ~2,000 km it separates the United States from Mexico. Shrinking under drought and irrigation demands, the river that marks the line is itself a source of water disputes between the two countries.

29.0°N · 103.3°W

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