While trying to sort our these rivers today, I found on a tour company's web
site a reference to the bridge across Río Bravo as one approaches Blue Creek
Village from Orange Walk Town. The map to which you link below shows this. If
the web site is correct, then Booth's River runs into Río Bravo; and then Río
Bravo and Río Azul/Blue Creek run together to form Río Hondo. Blue Creek
Village and La Unión would be on opposite sides of Río Azul/Blue Creek.
When I was in Belize in 1994, there was talk that a second bridge and border
station was "soon" to be built at Blue Creek Village/La Unión. This was to be a
great boost to the Mennonite communities who would be better able to export
their agricultural products to Mexico. I guess it didn't happen. At the time,
there were some 6,000 Mennonites in Belize, having begun their migration there
from Chihuahua and Manitoba in 1958.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "acroorca2002" <orc@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 7:14 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: BZMX: Photo
> no problem doug so long as these locals arent the same locals
> who will be guiding you to the tripoint
> just kidding of course
>
> & we are all in luck here because the rio azul aka blue creek
> does indeed appear to be the main headstream of the rio hondo
> so everyone can in fact be correct
>
> http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/belize_pol_03.jpg
>
> except actually i am not sure if this blue creek aka rio azul really
> has its union with the rio hondo proper just below la union
> or if the union there is with the combined booths river & rio bravo
> all 3 of which thus together form the rio hondo entire at la union
>
> in any case the crick in your pic sure looks a lovely blue
>
>
> i do seriously trust those mennonite lads who claim they saw 2
> bzgtmx rocks tho
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Doug Murray (In Belize)
> <doug@d...> wrote:
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that it is the Hondo... locals called it the Hondo,
> > rule #1 notwithstanding.
> > I will check and confirm...
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 01:02 PM, m06079 wrote:
> >
> > > thanx nicely done
> > > & seekers will find it at the end of the photos section
> > > but i am pretty sure this is really still the rio azul here rather
> than
> > > the rio hondo which it joins not far below la union
> > >
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G.
> McManus"
> > > <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > > > I'll do it.
> > > >
> > > > Lowell G. McManus
> > > > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "m06079" <barbaria_longa@h...>
> > > > To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> > > > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 12:10 PM
> > > > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: BZMX: Photo
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > can anyone who received this snap by email repost it to
> our
> > > new
> > > > > improved photos section so our man on the bzgtmx
> scene
> > > can at
> > > > > least have a wider audience in the meantime
> > >
> > >
> > <image.tiff>
> > >
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