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 to pony and donkey rentals, parties at Park Bar and the overnights at the local bed and breakfast The Buzzard's Roost. Efforts have been underway since the 1930s to create a United States-Mexico International Peace Park in the area, joining Big Bend National Park with the Maderas del Carmen Protected Area in Coahuila. Note that since May 2002 the border crossing within Big 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 star Robert Earl Keen was known to frequent Boquillas and even wrote a song about a day he visited the village, "Gringo Honeymoon".

ee also

*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]