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Established as a river por in 1846, declined soon after its founding. It sits on a hilltop overlooking the river valley.

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Seeing Rio Grande as uniter, not divider PDF Print E-mail
About Los Caminos - How We Do It
Written by Colin McDonald - Express-News   

GUERRERO VIEJO, Mexico — As soon as he stepped onto the mud shore below the church ruins, Eric Ellman could visualize the party.

The racers would storm across the Rio Grande, landing their kayaks and canoes to the cheers of fans lining the streets of this 200-year-old, half-sunken and abandoned town now exposed by a drought-lowered lake.

After an awards ceremony in front of the church’s cleaned-up facade, camps would be set up. A band would play. Where cows now stood, couples would dance under a star-studded sky.

The Rio Grande again would be a uniting element, not just a heavily patrolled boundary be tween two impoverished, semi-isolated populations.

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What’s a historic preservation organization doing in the paddle sports business?
Los Caminos del Rio was founded to preserve and promote the environmental and cultural heritage of the Rio Grande Valley.  And what is more worthy of preservation than the river for which it was named?  That prompted settlement?  Supported trade? And on which the Valley’s existance depends?  To care for something one must love it.  To love it, one must know it.  By demonstrating the viability of paddle sports on the Rio Grande, Los Caminos creates a venue for healthy activity to address the region’s epidemic of obesity related diseases and encourages protection of our most fundamental environmental resource.
 
How green could be our Valley PDF Print E-mail
About Los Caminos - How We Do It

The Outdoor Industry Association reports that 80 million Americans ride a bike, making cycling about our most popular form of exercise. It’s also among our most significant contributors to overall public health. Exercise will make you live longer. It will make you love longer. 

But even that promise won’t get most Rio Grande Valleyites off their duffs and onto the street: Census data McAllen ranks No. 37 among similar sized Texas cities when it comes to bicycle commuting.  Of course the rest of the Valley's cities are no better. It’s understandable. Connecting roads are jammed, and what bike trails do exist don't link people from where they live to where they work, worship and study.  

It needn’t be this way...

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Los Caminos del Rio elects Mexican historian as new president PDF Print E-mail
About Los Caminos - Who We Are
Written by http://www.themonitor.com/articles/new-32932-caminos-president.html   

 Los Caminos del Rio elected Mexican historian Carlos Rugerio Cazares as its new president to replace Eddie Treviño Jr.

Treviño called the emergency meeting last week after announcing he would step down because of his candidacy for Cameron County judge. Treviño announced in September that he would run against County Judge Carlos H. Cascos.

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What do Bike Trails have to do with Historic Preservation? PDF Print E-mail
Plenty, when they’re along the banks of turn-of-the-century irrigation and drainage canals.  After all, the story of the Valley is the story of agriculture.  And in the arid west irrigation is the story of agriculture.  From their inception as shallow trenches dug by mule teams to modern rivers dug by steam shovels that carry the equivalent of the entire river’s flow, the Valley’s network of irrigation and drainage canals made modern agriculture possible.  Today they have a whole new resource value.  These aqueous arteries represent a network of green space that offer migratory corridors for wildlife and off-road biking opportunities that relieve congestion, both on Valley highways and in the circulatory system of those who ride them.
 
McCanalEnburg Chalenge Winners PDF Print E-mail
Our Annual Events - McCanalEnburg Challenge
Wally's Bicycles sweeps the podium taking 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th... on Twitpic
 
A distinctive heritage corridor on the Rio Grande PDF Print E-mail
About Los Caminos - Where We Are

 

Los Caminos del Rio Heritage CoridorFrom Laredo to Brownsville, in the United States, and from Colombia to Matamoros, in Mexico, a corridor stretches for 200 miles on U.S. Highways 83 and "Military Highway" 281 as well as Mexico's Highway 2.

Outstanding 18th and 19th century river communities and landmarks still abound. Their presence makes this river route a prime vehicle for the development of heritage tourism and for the enhancement of community pride for the region.

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Legacies PDF Print E-mail
About Los Caminos - Why We Do It
 Los Caminos Del Rio Heritage Project and the Wildlife Corridor began as broad-based conservation endeavors to protect and enhance the special character of the Lower Rio Grande. Federal, state, and local government agencies, as well as private institutions in Texas and Mexico, are working in concert to raise public awareness and foster support for preservation of the unique cultural and natural resources of the heritage corridor. By linking the major facets of borderlands heritage, a sense of place is reinforced, and the regional economy is enhanced through cultural and nature tourism, conservation-related development, and educational and recreational activities.
 
The Los Caminos del Rio National Heritage Area PDF Print E-mail
About Los Caminos - What We're Doing

Los Caminos del Rio is proud of its role in helping to establish both the proposed Los Caminos del Rio National Heritage Area and  hopes to form a "Heritage Alliance" comprised of existing profit and non-profit entities interested in managing this initiative. As part of a working group comprised of regional entities and local stakeholders, and with guidance from the National Park Service, Los Caminos plans to assist the management of the initial stages of the designation effort. Including partnering with local educational and government agencies in the preparation of a required Feasibility Study and continuing research that will further inform key portions of the study's contents.

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Grand Plans on the Rio Grand in Granjeno! PDF Print E-mail
About Los Caminos - What We're Doing

"Every three or four years, Los Caminos del Rio is visited by Professor Bruce Sharkey of the LSU Robert S. Reich School of Architecture.  This summer he brought his current crop of landscape architecture students for one week to the town of Granjeno.  He invited them to "Imagine the Rio Grande"...

Imagining The Rio Grande
 
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