2) Natal, city, Brazil. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Rio Grande do Norte state, NE Brazil, just above the mouth of the Potengi River. A modern city that has retained its colonial flavor and is beautifully situated among...

3) Salado, Rio. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...South American rivers, including more than 10 in Argentina. The most important is the Rio Salado del Norte (c.1,250 mi/2,010 km long), rising in the Andes near Salta,...

4) Rio Grande, river, United States and Mexico. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Texas and Mexico, making a big bend (see Big Bend National Park), and eventually emptying into the Gulf of Mexico at Brownsville, Tex., and Matamoros, Mex. Other...

5) sertao. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Its characteristic landscape is the caatinga, or thorny scrub forest. The chief occupation of the region is stock raising. The sertao area, in the "polygon of drought,"...

6) Mexico, country, North America. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...United Mexican States, republic (1995 est. pop. 93,986,000), 753,665 sq mi (1,952,500 sq km), S North America. It borders on the United States in the north, on the...

7) Brazil. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Federative Republic of Brazil, republic (1997 pop. 159,800,000), 3,286,470 sq mi (8,511,965 sq km), E South America. By far the largest of the Latin American countries,...

8) Juarez. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Chihuahua state, N Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite El Paso, Tex. Connected with the United States by three international bridges, it is a shipping point and highway...

9) El Paso. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Rio Grande opposite Juarez, Mex.; inc. 1873. In a region of cattle ranches and cotton and vegetable farms (irrigated from the Elephant Butte Reservoir), the city...