15 Boquillias Canyon Overlook

Boquillas Canyon Overlook

If you are just doing some driving, this lookout gives you a view of the village of Boquillas where you can see the characteristic colors of the buildings. As you walk to peer out to Boquillas Canyon, you will most likely find some trinkets for sale from our friends across the stream. These will include copper-wire art, walking sticks, and other crafts. Bring extra cash to pick up these beautiful items (wink wink).

From the Boquillas Overlook you can see the village of Boquillas, Mexico just across the Rio Grande. This is also a great place to photograph the Sierra del Carmens and Boquillas Canyon. The exhibit panel graphically shows how the Rio Grande carved this major canyon. Along with Mariscal and Santa Elena canyons, these three canyons are one of the major reasons for the creation of Big Bend National Park.

The rio Grande Rover from the Boquillas Canyon Overlook
It was a Hot day making this panorama
The Rio Bravo River; Boquillas Canyon Overlook
The Rio Grande, aka Rio Bravo, river. Boquillas Canyon Overlook: Boquillas del Carmen is to the right. The length of the Rio Grande is 1,896 miles (3,051 km) and originates in south-central Colorado, and flows to the Gulf of Mexico. After traversing the length of New Mexico, the Rio Grande becomes the Mexico–United States border, between the U.S. state of Texas and the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua and Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas; moreover, a short segment of the Rio Grande is a partial state-boundary between the U.S. states of New Mexico and Texas. Since the mid–twentieth century, only 20 per cent of the Rio Grande's water reaches the Gulf of Mexico, because of the voluminous consumption of water required to irrigate farmland (e.g. the Lower Rio Grande Valley) and to continually hydrate cities, such water usages are additional to the reservoirs of water retained with diversion dams.