Nature reserve · Texas

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 42 m. Gongora Hill stands 101 m to the west-northwest, 24 miles off. Texas Tropical Trail passes 2.6 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Getting there

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Coordinates26.27672, -98.66723

2.6 mi off the Texas Tropical Trail

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 0.5 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 0.7 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 0.8 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 0.8 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 1.2 mi

Historic sites40

Parks34

Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area - La Grulla Unit: 2.0 mi
Los Ebanos Park: 6.9 mi
Basilio Villarreal Municipal Park: 10.9 mi
Starr County Fairgrounds: 11.0 mi
Fort Ringgold Historic Site: 11.0 mi

Ghost towns1

Sam Fordyce: 9.1 mi

Attractions1

Hawk observation deck: 19.2 mi

Peaks1

Gongora Hill: 23.5 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
Gongora Hill	WNW 296°	101 m	23.5 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:39	19:16	19:46
June solstice	06:44	19:57	20:31
September equinox	07:24	19:02	19:32
December solstice	07:19	17:14	17:48

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	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, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1381187302

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