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Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area - Brasil Unit

Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area - Brasil Unit from directly overhead

Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area - Brasil Unit is a nature reserve in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 11 m. Palmito Hill stands 11 m to the east-southeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is World Birding Center - Resaca De La Palma State Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Texas Tropical Trail passes 2.5 miles off. 9 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 11 m

Getting there

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Coordinates25.99866, -97.56272

2.5 mi off the Texas Tropical Trail

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks

World Birding Center - Resaca De La Palma State Park: 0.6 mi
Brownsville Sports Park: 2.6 mi
Stillman Dog Park: 2.9 mi
Monte Bella Trails Park: 3.3 mi
Windwood Park: 3.6 mi

Nature reserves

Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 2.1 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 3.1 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 3.1 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 3.8 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 3.9 mi

Historic sites

Peaks9

Loma de la Montuosa Chica: 13.2 mi
Loma de la Jauja: 16.1 mi
Loma la Lauja: 17.4 mi
Palmito Hill: 17.8 mi
Loma Tio Alejos: 18.1 mi

Museums8

Children’s Museum of Brownsville: 7.0 mi
Historic Brownsville Museum: 7.4 mi
Stillman House Museum: 7.9 mi
Brownsville Heritage Museum: 7.9 mi
Brownsville Art League Fine Arts Museum: 8.3 mi

Artworks7

Elon Musk Statue: 15.3 mi
Occupy Mars - Elon Musk Wall: 15.4 mi
DOGE: 15.4 mi
Golden Age of Hollywood & Mexican Cinema in Harlingen, Texas: 15.7 mi
The History of Mexico & Mankind: 15.8 mi

Gardens3

Nature Park Retention Garden: 7.8 mi
Nature Park Rain Garden: 7.8 mi
Butterfly Garden: 8.5 mi

Picnic sites2

Nature Park Picnic Area: 7.9 mi
Prairie Island Picnic Area: 16.8 mi

Attractions2

Welcome to Texas Sign: 9.0 mi
Starbase Sign: 23.2 mi

Ghost towns1

Santa Rita: 2.6 mi

Rest areas1

Texas Travel Information Center at Harlingen: 16.3 mi

Cliffs1

Red Head Bluff: 24.8 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area - Brasil Unit. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Palmito Hill	ESE 103°	11 m	17.8 mi
Loma de la Jauja	E 99°	9 m	16.1 mi
Loma la Cuchilla	ENE 75°	9 m	19.5 mi
Loma del Mesquite	E 81°	8 m	21.1 mi
Loma Tio Alejos	E 97°	7 m	18.1 mi
Loma la Lauja	ENE 60°	6 m	17.4 mi
Loma del Islote	E 80°	6 m	21.7 mi
Loma de la Montuosa Chica	ESE 105°	3 m	13.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:35	19:12	19:42
June solstice	06:40	19:52	20:26
September equinox	07:20	18:58	19:28
December solstice	07:14	17:10	17:44

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–Apr.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	63	67	71	77	82	86	86	87	83	78	71	64
Precip in	1.1	1.0	1.4	1.5	2.2	2.9	2.0	2.2	5.7	3.8	1.8	1.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Brownsville, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/356849095

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