On Tuesday, August 26, the Presidio County Historical Commission will be hosting a ceremony to celebrate the official unveiling of a new marker on FM 170. The marker will commemorate La Junta de Los Rios (“the confluence of the rivers”), where the Rio Conchos and the Rio Grande meet just upstream of Presidio.
La Junta de los Rios is mentioned in the Relación of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, the Spanish shipwreck survivor who became the first European to travel the Big Bend area in 1536. The Indigenous history of the area goes back thousands of years, and is the site of some of the oldest continuously-cultivated farmland in North America.
The ceremony will take place on Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. and is located one mile past the Presidio International Speedway on FM 170.