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Rio Grande
1[ree-oh grand, gran-dee, grahn-dey,
noun
Mexican Rio Bravo.a river flowing from SW Colorado through central New Mexico and along the boundary between Texas and Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico. 1,800 miles (2,900 km) long.
a river flowing W from SE Brazil into the Paraná River. 650 miles (1,050 km) long.
Also called Rio Grande do Sul.São Pedro do Río Grande do Sul.
Río Grande
2[ree-oh grahn-dey, -dee, ree-aw grahn-de]
noun
a city in NE Puerto Rico.
a river in central Nicaragua, flowing NE to the Caribbean Sea. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
Rio Grande
noun
Mexican name: Río Bravo.a river in North America, rising in SW Colorado and flowing southeast to the Gulf of Mexico, forming the border between the US and Mexico. Length: about 3030 km (1885 miles)
a port in SE Brazil, in SE Rio Grande do Sul state: serves as the port for Porto Alegre. Pop: 188 000 (2005 est)
Rio Grande
River running east from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico, dividing the United States from Mexico.
Example Sentences
A 29-year veteran of the US Army who retired as a colonel, this Texan - from the overwhelmingly Latino Rio Grande City on the border - believes that it is the protests that have gone too far.
The artists and activists, Mexican immigrants in a border town on the Rio Grande, tilt at policies targeting not only their families and neighbors but their bodies — amid sequences of chaotic abandon and stargazing reverie.
Between April and June 2024, record-breaking rainfall in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, led to the worst flood in the area's history.
At the heart of the dispute is a treaty that requires the two nations to divide the flows from three rivers — the Rio Grande, the Colorado and the Tijuana — across their shared 2,000-mile border.
Planning to apply for asylum, the family made their way up through Central America and Mexico before wading across the Rio Grande and arriving at the U.S. border in 2022.
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