- Boquillas del Carmen
(Rio Grande).
In the late 1990s, it was a small (300 resident) town with a bar, restaurant, taco stands, and children outside the mission selling rocks collected in the
desert or from nearby caves. Tourism options were mostly limited topony and donkey rentals, parties at Park Bar and the overnights at the localbed and breakfast The Buzzard's Roost. Efforts have been underway since the 1930s to create a United States-MexicoInternational Peace Park in the area, joiningBig Bend National Park with theMaderas del Carmen Protected Area in Coahuila. Note that since May 2002 the border crossing withinBig Bend National Park to Boquillas has been closed indefinitely. As of October 2006, only 19 families, totaling about 90-100 remain in Boquillas. The rest have been forced to move away by the closure of the tourist crossing with the Big Bend National Park. Country music starRobert Earl Keen was known to frequent Boquillas and even wrote a song about a day he visited the village, "Gringo Honeymoon".ee also
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Big Bend National Park External links
* [http://virtualguidebooks.com/Texas/WestTexas/Boquillas/AcrossFromBoquillas.html Virtual Reality Panorama Near Boquillas]
* [http://www.jeffblaylock.com/window/000373.shtml Boquillas Crossing]
* [http://www.alpineavalanche.com/articles/2005/04/21/news/news05.txt Mexican towns slowly recovering from closed borders]
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