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440 ft (130 m) Lake Casa Blanca is a reservoir on the Chacon Creek, 5 miles (8 km) northeast of downtown Laredo, Texas, United States. The reservoir was formed in 1951 by the construction of a dam to provide recreational opportunities for the residents of Webb County. The current dam is the second built across the creek - a previous dam built ...
As of the 2010, Laredo is the 81st-most populous city in the United States and the 10th-largest in Texas. According to the 2010 census [6][28][29] there were 236,091 inhabitants in the city. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of Laredo was: Whites: 87.7%, non-Hispanic Whites: 3.86%.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Lake Casa Blanca International State Park is a 525-acre state park located in Laredo, Texas, United States a few miles east of the border with Mexico. [2] The park was originally managed by Webb County and the City of Laredo. It opened as a state park in 1991 and is managed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife ...
Laredo–Nuevo Laredo. (2010 official U.S. Census / INEGI Census) Laredo–Nuevo Laredo (UN/LOCODE: USLRD & MXNLD), otherwise known as the " Four-State Area " or the " Quad State Area ", is one of six transborder agglomerations along the U.S.-Mexican border. The city of Laredo is situated in the U.S. state of Texas on the northern bank of the ...
Max. depth. 110 ft (34 m) Surface elevation. 301 ft (92 m) Falcon International Reservoir (Spanish: Embalse Internacional Falcón), commonly called Falcon Lake, is a reservoir on the Rio Grande 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Laredo, Texas, United States, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The huge lake is bounded by Starr and Zapata Counties ...
345 ft (110 m) Length. 20 mi (32 km) Chacon Creek is a small stream of water located in Webb County, Texas, US, which runs through Laredo. The creek is formed 6 miles from Webb and runs southwest for 20 miles until it connects to the Rio Grande. Chacon was dammed in 1951 in east Laredo to form Lake Casa Blanca, a 1,680 acres (6.8 km 2) lake.
LAREDO, Texas—"They figured that this would shut me down," says Priscilla Villarreal. "But what they did was create a monster." Villarreal is a journalist here in the Texas border town of Laredo
Laredo Air Force Base. Service members of WASP on the flight line at Laredo Army Air Field, Texas, 22 January 1944. Laredo Air Force Base, is a since-deactivated Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) installation of the Air Training Command (ATC) in Laredo, Texas. The facility was originally established as Laredo Army Air Field, a World War II U.S ...