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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 62 m. Loma Blanca stands 123 m to the north-northwest, 17 miles off. Texas Tropical Trail passes 2.4 miles off. 48 named places lie within 25 miles, 2 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: United States Fish and Wildlife Service

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Getting there

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Coordinates26.52712, -99.12833

2.4 mi off the Texas Tropical Trail

Around it

48 named places within 25 miles

Historic sites21

Parks14

Salineño Community Park: 2.0 mi
Fronton Plaza: 8.6 mi
Plaza San Juan: 9.6 mi
Roma Community Park: 10.3 mi
Bicentennial Plaza: 11.1 mi

Nature reserves9

Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 1.6 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 1.8 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 6.1 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 7.7 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 9.5 mi

Peaks2

Gongora Hill: 10.2 mi
Loma Blanca: 16.7 mi

Gardens1

Butterfly Garden: 4.2 mi

Museums1

Roma Historical Museum: 9.5 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
Loma Blanca	NNW 346°	123 m	16.7 mi
Gongora Hill	SE 134°	101 m	10.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:41	19:18	19:48
June solstice	06:45	20:00	20:33
September equinox	07:26	19:04	19:34
December solstice	07:21	17:15	17:50

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	60	65	72	78	84	89	89	90	85	78	69	61
Precip in	0.7	0.6	0.8	1.2	2.0	1.9	2.0	1.6	4.9	1.4	1.3	1.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Falcon DAM, 2 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element way/1380863779

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