Its mouth at the Rio Negro, an affluent of the Amazon River, is near the town of San Carlos and is above sea level.

The Casiquiare canal connects the upper Orinoco, 9 miles below the mission of Esmeraldas, with the Rio Negro affluent of the Amazon River near the town of San Carlos.

In February 1932, Howard vacationed at a border town on the lower Rio Grande.

Examples are Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where Talian is used, and the town of Chipilo near Puebla, Mexico ; each continues to use a derived form of Venetian dating back to the nineteenth century.

A long-defunct " Glenn Rio Motel " recalls Route 66 ghost town Glenrio, New Mexico and Texas, now a national historic district on the state line.

Portuguese trading posts were installed in Tanguegueth in Cay, a town they renamed Fresco Rio ( the future Rufisque ) because of the freshness of its sources in the Baol Sali ( later the seaside town of Saly ) which takes the name of Portudal, or to Joal in the Kingdom of Sine.

The Chiricahua range extended to the east as far as the Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico and to the west as far as the San Pedro River Valley in Arizona, north of Magdalena just below present day Hwy I-40 corridor in New Mexico and with the town Ciudad Madera ( 276 km northwest of the state capital, Chihuahua, and 536 km southwest of Ciudad Juárez ( formerly known as Paso del Norte ) on the Mexico – United States border ), as their southernmost range.

60, 000 people attended her mourning ceremony at the Rio town hall, and more than half a million Brazilians escorted the funeral cortège to her resting place.

Rio Tinto Alcan operates Iceland's first aluminium smelter ( plant name: ISAL ), in Straumsvík, near the town of Hafnarfjörður.

The fictional small town of El Pano, where the novel begins, is based on the existing village of Del Rio, Tennessee.

Del Norte is a quaint town with a focus on its historic past ; it is the county seat, home to the Rio Grande County Museum, and maintains a historic façade in its main street.

The newest town in Rio Grande County is South Fork.

On August 22, 1940, they moved again to Petrópolis, a town in the conurbation of Rio de Janeiro.

Puerto Rico Highway 3, the main highway bordering the east coastline of Puerto Rico from San Juan, passes through Humacao and has its only alt route in the town, known locally as the Bulevar del Rio ( River Boulevard ) where it has access to the main judiciary center of the city, as well as a future theatre that is being built, the Centro de Bellas Artes de Humacao ( Humacao Fine Arts Center ).

Folsom is named for Joseph Libbey Folsom who purchased Rancho Rio de los Americanos from the heirs of a San Francisco merchant William Alexander Leidesdorff, and laid out the town called Granite City, mostly occupied by gold miners seeking fortune in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

The settlement was renamed " Rio Vista " before a flood in 1862 that resulted in the town moving to its present location on higher ground.

The town of Guerneville lies east of Monte Rio, and Jenner is slightly north-west.

El Rio is a small unincorporated census-designated town in Ventura County, California, USA, on the northeast side of the 101 Freeway and Oxnard, and south of the Santa Clara River.

In 1877 Oliver Hudson Kelly, from Massachusetts founded the town and named it Rio Carrabelle.

Rio was previously home to its own elementary school, which most humbly stands in the center of town ; near the corner of Grande Avenue and North Main Street.

Originally Stables, Louisiana, the town was renamed when 200 members of the Socialist commune Llano Del Rio Cooperative Colony in California relocated to this site in 1917, giving the town its present name.

The town lies adjacent to the Rio Grande in a landscape dominated by the Rio Grande rift and numerous extinct volcanoes.

The 1959 movie Rio Bravo featured the town.

* Río Bravo, Suchitepéquez, a town in Guatemala

In July 1983, the LTTE launched a deadly ambush on a Sri Lanka Army check point Four Four Bravo outside the town of Thirunelveli, killing an officer and 12 soldiers.

In 1901 Mexican general Ignacio Bravo led his troops to the town to stay, occupying with a large force and over the next years subduing surrounding villages.

Boquillas del Carmen, February 2002 Boquillas ( Boquillas del Carmen ) is a small town in the Mexican state of Coahuila, on the banks of the Rio Grande ( Río Bravo del Norte ).

Fearing that his side would lose its privileged position, Bravo led a military insurrection ( known variously as the Revolution of Tulancingo, after the central Mexican town where it was centered, or the Revolt of Montaño, after a minor political figure who nominally headed it ) against the York-controlled federal army.

* Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas, town in the Río Bravo municipality

The movie is the second film in a trilogy directed by Hawks varying the idea of a sheriff defending his office against belligerent outlaw elements in the town: the other two films are Rio Bravo ( 1959 ) and Rio Lobo ( 1970 ), both also starring Wayne.

Many of Trinidad and Tobago's respected citizens come from this small town, including world-renowned West Indian cricketer Jeffrey Stollmeyer, world-renowned athlete Ato Boldon, poet Eintou Pearl Springer, top parang band The Lara Brothers and Soca star Sanelle Dempster, cricketers Dwayne Bravo, Darren Bravo and textbook author Adesh Seuraj.

It was the third film in a trilogy directed by Hawks varying the idea of a sheriff defending his office against belligerent outlaw elements in the town: the other two films were Rio Bravo ( 1959 ) and El Dorado ( 1966 ), both also starring John Wayne.

In 1850, Buzeta and Bravo describes the town of Santa Maria, which follows:

Yet, Santa Maria had also known periods of serenity and more stable times, so well described by Manuel Buzeta and Felipe Bravo, from whom we lean heavily for the following description of the town.

* Albert, Texas, a ghost town

The show centers on two socially awkward, rock-loving teenage delinquents, Beavis and Butt-head ( both voiced by Judge ), who live in the town of Highland, Texas.

" The Berliner Zeitung " reported a few days later that Haley had collapsed after a performance in Texas and been taken to the hospital in his home town of Harlingen, Texas.

* The town of Rockne, Texas was named to honor him.

The mean center of United States population as of the 2010 Census is at the town of Plato in Texas County, Missouri.

The Texas and Pacific reached town in 1876 ; the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway ( later merged into the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ) and the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway in 1887 ; the Texas Midland ( later Southern Pacific ) in 1894 ; and the Paris and Mount Pleasant ( Pa-Ma Line ) in 1910.

Preacher tells the story of Jesse Custer, a preacher in the small Texas town of Annville.

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

* Venus, Texas, a town in the United States

* August 20 – A massive hurricane demolishes the town of Indianola, Texas.

* Roma, Texas, a town in the United States

* Ben Hur, Texas, a town

* Lincoln Park, Texas, a town

Some writers discount settlements that were abandoned as a result of a natural or human-made disaster, using the term only to describe settlements which were deserted because they were no longer economically viable ; T. Lindsey Baker, author of Ghost Towns of Texas, defines a ghost town as " a town for which the reason for being no longer exists ".

Fort Shafter, Hawaii, is named for him, as well as the city of Shafter, California and the ghost town of Shafter, Texas.

They set up a folding card table by the main street of a sleepy Texas town, dust it off, and invite passersby to come to the wedding.

* Cisco, Texas, a small town midway between Dallas and Abilene, in Texas

* Alba, Texas, a town divided between Wood County and Rains County

Primera is a town in Cameron County, Texas, United States, near Combes.

Center-pivot irrigation was invented in 1949 by farmer Frank Zybach, who lived in the dry Texas panhandle near the town of Dalhart.