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Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge from directly overhead

Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge is a nature reserve in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 49 m. Gongora Hill stands 101 m to the northwest, 4.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area - Prieta Unit, a park 1.2 miles away. Texas Tropical Trail passes 1.5 miles off. 73 named places lie within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: United States Fish and Wildlife Service

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Getting there

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Coordinates26.38696, -98.95236

1.5 mi off the Texas Tropical Trail

Around it

73 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves34

Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 5.3 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 6.4 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 6.8 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 8.8 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 10.1 mi

Historic sites21

Parks15

Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area - Prieta Unit: 1.2 mi
El Garceño Park: 1.8 mi
Roma Municipal Park: 3.3 mi
Bicentennial Plaza: 4.0 mi
Roma Community Park: 4.4 mi

Peaks1

Gongora Hill: 4.4 mi

Museums1

Roma Historical Museum: 13.6 mi

Gardens1

Butterfly Garden: 18.3 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Gongora Hill	NW 306°	101 m	4.4 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:41	19:17	19:48
June solstice	06:45	19:59	20:32
September equinox	07:25	19:03	19:34
December solstice	07:20	17:15	17:49

Local time (America/Matamoros).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–Apr.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	58	63	69	76	82	86	87	87	83	76	67	59
Precip in	0.8	1.0	1.3	1.0	2.8	2.8	2.0	1.3	5.1	2.5	1.1	0.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — RIO Grande City, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element way/1380982210

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