Terrazas: 'The River That Runs Through Me' I miss the Rio Grande. In my mind I see it, and I smell menudo spiced with oregano. I see it and I hear the clop of horses' hoofs outside my grandfather ...

Only in 1848, after the U.S. invaded Mexico, did it annex the river’s northern bank, along with all the southwestern territories, including the Rio Grande’s headwaters in Colorado and New Mexico.

THE LINE ON THE MAP BEGINS AT BOCA CHICA on the Gulf of Mexico and hugs the Rio Grande from its mouth to the Pecos River. Ten times the riverside route changes highway numbers as it passes through ...

The river — shown here near the Rio Grande River Trail, a popular spot for dog walkers — went dry in Albuquerque for the first time in 40 years in late July.

The once-mighty Rio Grande River, which runs more than 1,200 miles from its headwaters in the Rockies to the Gulf of Mexico, has seen better days. Much better. In some segments, its flow is so ...

The Rio Grande was once a perennial river, though marked by periods of extreme drought and dotted by dry stretches. But as agriculture and municipal use took more of the water, the river’s flow became ...