Subject: little mouth of rio grande is wet again<br/>
Date: Nov 07, 2002 @ 23:29<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1349679408"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.reporter-news.com/1998/2002/texas/texas_Rains_reu116.html">http://www.reporter-news.com/1998/2002/texas/texas_Rains_reu116.html</a><br/>
reports that the rio grande no longer peters out before reaching the gulf of <br/>
mexico<br/>
thanx to recent heavy rains in south texas<br/>
making things much easier in this unwalled area for the poor overworked <br/>
yanko border guards<br/>
who had been running themselves ragged chasing dry wetbacks<br/>
etc etc<br/>
<br/>
but the main consequence of the renewed watercourse for tripointing is that <br/>
it is no longer possible to just walk across the dry river bed from the usa <br/>
to the mxtatx point 20 meters up the beach from the river mouth<br/>
<br/>
it is sometimes possible to wade across the river mouth tho<br/>
along a sandbar<br/>
& it would be a short swim in any case<br/>
<br/>
mxtatx is the usually overlooked tripoint on mxus where the state of <br/>
tamaulipas meets the peculiar mexican federal combined maritime & littoral <br/>
territory<br/>
<br/>
there is a corresponding & similarly overlooked tripoint<br/>
bacamx<br/>
on the beach at tijuana near the other end of mxus<br/>
<br/>
many countries reserve all offshore waters beyond the low tide line to their <br/>
federal government<br/>
& some like the usa & oz allocate the landward portions of their maritime <br/>
territory to the individual states<br/>
but the only other country known to have adopted a combined wet&dry coastal <br/>
arrangement like that of mexico is new zealand<br/>
which similarly extends its federal maritime territory a horizontal distance <br/>
of 20 meters up the beach above the high tide line<br/>
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