On the Way There: Amistad Reservoir

Amistad Reservoir is located in the Rio Grande basin in southern Val Verde County, Texas, and Coahuila, Mexico, twelve miles northwest of Del Rio (at 29°27' N, 101°03' W). The lake is surrounded by massive limestone and wash deposits on flat terrain surfaced by dark, calcareous, stony clays and clay loams that support grasses and water-tolerant hardwoods and conifers.

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for more information, click here: The Handbook of Texas Online or here: Texas Travel Guide

On the Way There: The Pecos Gorge

Where Winnetou and Old Shatterhand must have ridden!

Like the Rio Grande, the Pecos River flows mostly southward across New Mexico. Unlike the Rio Grande, it rises within the borders of the state, having its headwaters not far to the east of Santa Fe. Its tributaries are mountain streams the flow eastward out of the southernmost part of the Rocky Mountains. South of Carlsbad, it flows into the state of Texas and continues several hundred more miles before joining the Rio Grande.

On the Way There: The Pecos Gorge

The Pecos River, one of the major tributaries of the Rio Grande, rises on the western slope of the Santa Fe mountain range in Mora County, New Mexico (at 35°59' N, 105°33' W), and runs south through San Miguel, Guadalupe, De Baca, Chaves, and Eddy counties in New Mexico before it enters Texas just east of the 104th meridian.

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for more information, click here: The Handbook of Texas Online