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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 50 m. Gongora Hill stands 101 m to the east-northeast, 1.5 miles off. The nearest named place is The Mier Expedition, a historic site 0.9 miles away. Texas Tropical Trail passes 0.7 miles off. 58 named places lie within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Official site

Getting there

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Coordinates26.41482, -99.03267

0.7 mi off the Texas Tropical Trail

Around it

58 named places within 25 miles

Historic sites21

Nature reserves20

Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 1.3 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 3.5 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 4.7 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 5.3 mi
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge: 9.8 mi

Parks14

Roma Community Park: 1.1 mi
Bicentennial Plaza: 1.4 mi
Roma Municipal Park: 2.1 mi
Plaza San Juan: 3.1 mi
Fronton Plaza: 3.3 mi

Peaks1

Gongora Hill: 1.5 mi

Museums1

Roma Historical Museum: 11.8 mi

Gardens1

Butterfly Garden: 13.8 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	ENE 67°	101 m	1.5 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	20:33
September equinox	07:25	19:03	19:34
December solstice	07:21	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	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, 12 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element way/1380951791

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