Del Rio Wedding

Del Rio is the county seat of Val Verde CountyGR6,United States. The population was 33,867 at the 2000 census.

Del Rio is known as the American address of legendary Mexican radio stations XERA in the 1930s and XERF transmitter powered each of these stations just over the U.S.-Mexico border in Ciudad Acua, Coahuila and could be heard as far away as Canada.

Del Rio is also home to Laughlin Air Force Base, the busiest pilot training base in the United States Air Force.

The Spanish established a small settlement south of the Rio Grande in present day Mexico and, some Spaniards settled on what became the United States side of the Rio Grande as early as the 18th century, but true development of the U.S. side of the Rio Grande did not begin until after the American Civil War.