"The south Texas landscape is a unique blending of temperate, subtropical, coast....
"Established in 1979, LRGV set the wheels in motion for connecting the natural e....
"This handsome stone church was dedicated in 1755, and appears very much as it d....
"Founded in 1690 as San Francisco de los Tejas near present-day Weches, Texas, t....
"Known as the Queen of the Missions, this is the largest of the missions and was....
"Originally founded in 1716 in eastern Texas, Mission San Juan was transferred i....
"On May 8, 1846 troops of the United States and Mexico clashed on the prairie of....
"in 1718 Franciscans and Spanish representatives established the first mission. ....
The banks of the lower Rio Grande is the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, a 2....