Where does the US-Mexico border start and end?
Q: Where does the US-Mexico border start and end?
A: The US-Mexico border starts at Imperial Beach, California, and Tijuana, Baja California in the west and ends at Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Texas in the east.
Q: What type of terrain does it cover?
A: The US-Mexico border covers a variety of terrains ranging from major urban areas to inhospitable deserts.
Q: How long is the US-Mexican border?
A: The total length of the US-Mexican border is 3169 km (1969 mi).
Q: Is it considered an open border?
A: Yes, the US-Mexican border is considered an open border.
Q: How many crossings occur per year on average?
A: On average there are approximately 350 million crossings per year on the US-Mexican Border.
Q: Does it follow any rivers or other bodies of water?
A: Yes, from the Gulf of Mexico it follows the course of Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) to El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez Chihuahua before crossing vast tracts of Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts then crossing Colorado River Delta to San Diego and Tijuana before reaching Pacific Ocean.
