Big
Bend Travel Planner
Big Bend National Park is a land of borders. Situated on the boundary
with Mexico along the Rio Grande, it is a place where countries and cultures
meet.
It is also a place that merges
natural environments, from desert to mountains. It is a place where south
meets north and east meets west, creating a great diversity of plants
and animals. The park covers over 801,000 acres of west Texas in the place
where the Rio Grande makes a sharp turn - the Big Bend. Authorized June
20, 1935; established June 12, 1944. Designated a United States Biosphere
Reserve, 1976.
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