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Big Bend National Park: Rio Grande Canyons and the Darkest Skies in the Lower 48
Big Bend National Park sits where the Rio Grande makes its great bend through West Texas desert, cutting Santa Elena Canyon's 1,500-foot limestone walls along the US-Mexico border. This episode covers the Chisos Mountains, the only US mountain range entirely inside a single national park, Big Bend's International Dark Sky Park status and the darkest measured night skies in the lower 48 states, and the 450-plus bird species recorded within its 801,163 acres.
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