The American Town Ceded to Mexico in 1970
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2020
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Imagine Mexico finding oil in that town lmao
Hippity hoppity your town's back my propriety
Ahh Yes Mexico - America War In 2026
then its time for FREEDOM
If so, wouldn't it legally belong to Texaco?
Carl Wilkerson means they’ll be getting a big dose of freedom
As my Political Maps professor always says (literally ever lecture):
"Rivers are the worst boundaries"
best boundaries are either deserts, cultural, or mountains
@Aryan Verma yeah, the cultural map of romania is the worst, large hungarian populations sorounded by hundreds of kilometres of romanians in every direction
@@amapper7407 nah. Oceans and dense tropical forests are good too
@@greengreen110 To be fair, it's only an issue because hungarians ethnically cleansed these lands and planted settlers there...
@Aren I'm from Bosnia. Look at the map of entities in Bosnia. It's made by ethnic boundaries of ethnicities constructed by corrupt politicians who wanted to get rich. Yeah, and it's not even entirely correct.
In some parallel universe:
HAI: how USA and Mexico fought a war over a town.
WW1: Franz Ferdinand
WW3: Rio Rico
MaxWeitzz WW4: Toilet paper
@@donmah06 Also known as "The Alliteration Wars".
I think that's the usual course of action and hence, ours is the parallel universe
..
Lol they did that, but with a building
It's hilarious that, once they realized they were American citizens, almost everyone in Rio Rico left Mexico.
Lol that's what I thought too
So why there’s tons of gringos living in Mexico?
@@cecy2 Why are there so many gringos in Costa Rica or kanos in the Philippines? They're decent retirement spots with lower costs of living, and the same is true for Mexico. Plus, the U.S. and Mexico are right next door to each other so it makes sense a fair number who aren't retirees would cross the border. But a lot more Mexicans have come to the U.S. than vice versa, and that's an economic fact of life.
Well, there Americans after all.
@@cecy2 la musica nena
This town really just found out that they were Americans and booked it out of Mexico
Now I see why we have a border crisis
@tejano151 bruh, yes they are 💀
@@spps5205 net migration with Mexico has been the other way since the mid 2000s
@tejano151 mexico, colombia, nicaragua...who cares, all the same
@@superstandard no, they are not.
Let's all take a moment to appreciate the fact that those drunk party goers sneakily crossed a river and founded a whole town where they thought would be beyond the reach of American prohibition authorities on the one tiny spot that is in fact still within American borders and the cops never realised it either.
Good for the drunk people, bad for the cops
Except the cops were drinking there too
Yes
The king arm of the law or something.
I love how all the residents just fled the town for America immediately.
A plurality of them left over 10 years that's not really an entire town fleeing ...not even close.
Václav Červinka it’s was basically a tax heaven but for gambling and booze, when prohibition ended it was no longer needed, the land transfer was just the final nail in the coffin.
the town was kindof a shithole, the entire economy was based on prohibition dodging and when that dried up the whole place went detroit, so when people found out they could just move to the other side of the river to somewhere less awful they did.
Wait, I’m able to go to America legally... or live in...Mexico... adios muchachos!
@@joermnyc actually that town was just a dead end after all the bars and casinos closed down
0:31 río rico, which translates to something
great job hai
rich river
@@GaGaGooGik or Tasty River 😂
Yu Hin TAM lol
@Yu Hin TAM Nope, it translates to "rich river"
He is a master translator
How does one person owning three channels have three character
Alvaro Rodriguez Gomez Half as Interesting, Wendover Productions, and Sam from Wendover
@@Lucky-xq7dz lol
@Pinchie Alarm Kind of
Lucky1213! He also owns showmakers
It's the mystery of the Trinity.
For all those curious, Rio Ríco does indeed translate to something.
It means rich river or something
guimts Depending on how you see it, it can also be translated as “Delicious River”.
Esequiel Tovar True.
Yep! That "something" is "Rich River"! I thought so, being an English-speaking American taking Spanish classes:
Río=River (as in Río Grande, or "Big River")
Rico=Rich (as in Puerto Rico, or "Rich Port").
I don't get the joke in not saying "Rich River", though. I prefer my information to be more informational and less like "I don't speak Spanish, so I'll just skip this without an explanation".
@@esequieltovar4955 I live in San Diego, California, which is close to the United States-Mexico border, so knowing a bit of Spanish can be a bit useful. And now you know why I take Spanish!
The US when deciding how to make borders:
*_"Im not very good at it, But it doesn't matter."_*
XcQ... bruh it's 2020 and you're still trying to rick roll? Litterally everyone by now knows XcQ is the rickroll video link.
@YoBoiSnyderGG_ 9 are you 12? It's not even trying, you just post a link over and over, that's not rickrolling, it's just called being an annoying ass
they clearly learned that from mother britain
@YoBoiSnyderGG_ 9 you. How could you
We learned it from the best. Thanks, British Empire.
Guess for the "more remote island": Pitcairn Island
Here's Why:
1. it has 100 people
2. it has a interesting story where they pay people to live there
3. its hai
Tristan da Cunha
well he has already been there...
isn't that the place where everyone is a convicted sex offender and child molester including the mailman, and the women and girls and little girls living there all agree not to talk badly of the men there, despite outsiders clearly seeing the awful everyday conditions where women are routinely raped and sexually abused even by their own families, minors are forced to prostitute, and a few more awful things?
Tokelau?
Didn’t HAI do that? And I mean Extremities
This is Donald’s nightmare, giving an American town to Mexico
Send nukes
I MEANT NUDES
damn right
@J ronnn coming from some guy replying to this on RUclips
@J ronnn that's funny cause why even care? It's honestly just a small town on the border.
And even if I were on social media a lot, I would probably see people who spend most of their time there making memes about it, signaling they do care
The Rio Grande river changing course, and therefore the border, is more common than a lot of people realize. Right here in El Paso, TX we had a treaty to swap three bits of land in 1963 know as the Chamizal Dispute due to the river changing course in the early 1900s (the despite started around 1911). Now there are parks on either side of the border, two museums, and an international bridge between the two. Officially speaking though, there are still little bits of El Paso and bits of Juárez which are on the opposite bank of the river; none nearly as big as Chamizal though.
A US town founded in Mexico also applies to half of the west coast.
I mean not geographically as the border is today
There are few "towns" on the west coast that old. The ones that old are cities now.
Well if Mexico had of actually a country when the USA settled the land your point would be valid. As Mexico wasn't a country well the library doesn't close until 9:00 pm in most places
Daniel Dunn Mexico is and was a free independent country when the US invaded it and took half its territory
@@koatzingo361 Well every country has taken away land from others
"Oh, turns out you were all Americans the entire time, and you're living in America. We'll fix that for you."
"wait wait wait..."
I wonder if they all got arrested for not paying taxes
@@robertkidnley93 before the PATRIOT Act and FATCA the IRS had no claws abroad.
@@atanasarnaudov8253 But most of them moved to the US proper after the cession.
4:10 childish gambino when he realizes he has a song
*C O P Y S T R I K E T I M E*
Don't catch you slipping up
Fun fact: In Mexico the river is called Río Bravo.
_I thought it was called "Our Toilet and Drinking Water"._
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT cmon dude
Really ? I thought it was called Rio Grande del Norte.
@@user-te8wm8gd1k xD
MAGGOT VOMIT I thought it was called: the blood of junkie gringos
Holy shit imagine one day just having the realization that you were American this whole time lmao
And that you owe the IRS thousounds for not paying and filing you're income
Canada: _"Soo, when can we have 'er Minnesota North West Angle, eh?"_ _"Soon mehbee?"_
B. M. Don’t forget Point Roberts, WA
Usa:HAHAHAHA,No
@@joermnyc Hell naw. I'd have to go all the way across the bay to pick up my UPS packages. Having an American shipping address kicks ass!
I lived in a town long ago that had as boundaries between various plots of private property, a brook. The brooks changed course multiple times over 250 years so the various properties kept changing as well. One property went from 1/2 acre to 11 acres due to this but it occurred very gradually for the most part. The quickest change was due to a flood that happened about 45 years ago and the brook cut a new path bypassing a 2 acre loop which eliminated two properties entirely giving them to a developer. That caused law suits that went on for almost 20 years. It was finally resolved and the two home owners got to keep their homes after all and the developer lost out and the town finally changed it's ordinances to exclude any future change in the course of any body of water.
-Río Rico, which translates to “something”
Me, who has Spanish as his mother tongue: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
-- OHHHHH REEEEE COOOOOOO
I don't even know Spanish, but I'm pretty sure it means rich river.
@Aryan Verma It means Rich River
@Aryan Verma
Rio Rico
River Rich
I thought it meant Delicious River
Mexico: Hey US, this land is actually yours. What do you want to do with it
US: You can keep it
*surprise Pikachu face*
Edit: just fixed a typo.
only if this town had oil ;)
Can we have all of new spain back then?
@@sinos3xxdg21 Then Spain and Mexico would share it?
Hey don't be rude. Land is land.
Mexico: _You're the best big brother I could've ever asked for!_
I live very near this lost city and practically nobody knows about this. I've read a few comments from people whose parents used to live in Rio Rico but that's about it. There's a Texas Historical Marker somewhere close to it but those are very underappreciated and not cared about.
It's another very interesting tale from the Rio Grande Valley.
Hai: Pronounces Rio Grande “Rio Grand”
Me: *I can’t believe this*
Grandpa Soviet bruh I cringed the whole time. Especially when he didn’t translate the name of the city as rich river and just said “it translates to something”
The "ay" is silent. :)
It's rio rico
mxplixic no, no it’s not.
It always hurts my Southern Californian ears to hear pronunciations like that.
5:26 Yes, how did you know?
ThatOneGuyInTheBottom OfTheCommentSection
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You should do a video on the house located in Nyack, NY that was legally declared haunted by New York State's highest court. Seems like that would be right up your alley
"What country do you live in?"
"... it's complicated"
5:27 who sits like that with their laptop??? My back would get so sore.
I do....
you've clearly never tried that position. it's actually fairly comfortable long-term. the key is to have your elbows, which are supporting most of your weight here, sit on a soft surface, like a bed or mattress. The back being sore thing I can't relate to; mine gets sore from the opposite position, that is, looking down and forward. Looking up and backward like this which isn't possible while standing (lest you fall down into your back) is extremely confortable and actually relieves some of the soreness of a full day being upright, sitting and/or laying dwn.
Her feet annoy me. They're dirty. Needs to be washed.
Lol you get back sore first? My elbow collapses first when i do that, which is most of the time.
Now this is a bruh moment
@YoBoiSnyderGG_ 9 I can tell it's a rick roll by reading the letters
YoBoiSnyderGG_ 9 ruclips.net/video/OWWu05YYbNI/видео.html
1:31 - *video timeline comes up
*checks video timeline
*it's off by 4 seconds
Literally unwatchable
Off by only 1 second
@@bracco23 I think he's referring to the length of the video, 6:25 and 6:29.
1:53 "solution number 'b'" ok then
teachers be like
"Río Rico, which translates into something"
It means "rich river"
It can also translate to "Tasty River"
2:54 you are such a troll and I love it
XcQ link stays blue
What? I dont get this.
It’s a rick roll
@@daltonweathersby1320 Bro you are a genius
Dalton Weathersby, no, i asked about the original commenter’s comment!
When half as interesting isn't talking about planes
*(Insert surprised pikachu)*
Or bricks. Still want that brick video.
ItS No UsE
Nothing to Watch he’s definitely gonna make a vid about that
Yea really do a brick-plane all combined video
THAT INFLATION KILLED ME :D
I don't get it, dude says 1884 then 1803 and inflation goes down my head hurts
2:52 10k in 1885 is roughly a quarter million in 2020
Yeah, I was thinking "What? How is it less money then it is now?" Someone did an oopsy.
They said 6,283.64 in 1803 dollars, not modern day dollars. Another piece of HAI humour.
You didn’t understand the joke at all.
lmao
Yeah, the joke was pretty great. But I was still curious how much that really was, and supposed others may be as well. Hence my comment.
250K
1:00 I think that random stock video is actually the Rio Grande in New Mexico
@Galaxy TS2 That it's more and more random and that it's at least this time that's some what related even if Rio Rico is about 850 miles away from where I think that stock video is from
The retake is going accordingly to the plan.
_Our U.S. Patriot Community, "Prairie-Dog" shoots, held by alerted farmers along the border are more fun than ever!! Keep on tryin' to retake. Mexico really belongs to Honduras. xD_
@@MAGGOT_VOMIT you know what jokes are right?
@@x999uuu1 _Why did you not get the joke?_
Why is everything in italics
Anyone else notice the animations in this video might be copyright infringement from that Wendover production channel?
last time i was this early i wasn't in quarantine
Quarantined/self-isolating gang rise up
Last time I was this early This town was still American
When you get rickrolled two times:
ruclips.net/video/-Dv_DXqdC9k/видео.html
Looking forward to the new documentary! The first one was great.
“Río rico... which translates to... something” 👏👏👏👏👏
«Rio Grand» lmao
0:34 Río Rico = Rich River
Mate so it does translate to something!
Thank you, this is a very interesting channel.
Thanks for the CuriositySteam shout out!
I just remembered that I have to cancel it
I remember when the border of USA/Mexico along the Airzona border was just a regular 4 strand barb wire fence that wasn't patrolled. One evening in the late 1980s I was coming back from Aqua Prieta into Douglas Az. and no one was on duty so I just walked back into America. Guess he was on a bathroom break.
"This is the U.S.-Mexican Border - Home to one of the longest running games of hide-and-seek"
omfg I'm gonna die
There is a present ghost town called Olive City that was once in Arizona. It was founded as a ferry crossing on the Colorado River, but was abandoned in the late 1860’s. Due to the river changing course, the site of the town is now in California.
I just did a search for Rio Rico and found that there is a US town with the same name in Arizona.
There was another piece of land that changed sides because of the Rio Grande. A section of Mexico near El Paso ended up on the north side of the river (undeveloped) and a piece of US on south side. My dad worked for Texas & Pacific railroad then recently merged with Missouri - Pacific. They owned a switching and repair shop in that south parcel. Dad and I went to El Paso to survey T&P property that would be lost in summer 1963.
For all those interested
Rio Rico translates to Rich River
I love this channel, Thank you.
Thanks for still making videos about... other stuff.
Y’all not gonna talk about the “Plan Number B” at 1:53?
2:52 That might be a little off the actual number.
Goed gezien prins
These videos will get me through quarantine.
Wait I literally live 20 minutes away from this place and I've never heard of it until now what the heck
As Spanish as my first language, After analyzing the name Rio rico, I can confirm that it does indeed translate into something. I'm no expert though.
Delicious river ,i live in mexico it means that
" The scammer got scammed".
Did Sam just give adjusted for inflation numbers for an earlier year? Oh Sam...
Flawless segue into your Nebula promo 👌 You just might have me there... 🤔
When you watch an HAI video to help you study for history class
1:46 what happened to sbarros?
Because the Mississippi River changed course, Illinois’ first capital Kaskaskia now sits west of the river and is only accessible from the Missouri side. It even has a Missouri ZIP code. The “Liberty Bell of the West”, now nearly 300 years old, is still on display there, but the town now has only around 10 residents.
I got an ad talking about America before this.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which is what defined the border between the US and Mexico, called for things to start five nautical miles south of the San Diego Bay. As that body of water was constituted in 1848, the border should have begun about where Imperial Beach Boulevard is today. Instead, the binational border commission set the first monument about five kilometers south (GVMG+QV Tijuana, Baja California). Local folklore holds that this was because the Mexican half of the commission came late to the meeting and the gringos had stolen a march on them. Far more likely, however, is that these intrepid surveyors found themselves waist-deep in the Tijuana Slough and felt it prudent to set their marker on firmer land to the south. In either case, the southernmost five kilometers of California should properly belong to Mexico.
2:47 I want that pen
Great Video my grandfather was born in Rio Rico when it was part of America.
Thank for sharing a little bit of history of my birth town. Lots of history there.
Im not going to ask this again
Where's full as interesting?
I place my bet on Pitcairn being the subject of the documentary mentioned. 😁
Not a very interesting GPU tbh
Hey could you make a vid about the British Bus Wars that started in 1982 and explain about how it is technically still going on in Nottingham which makes it like the 5th longest war ever if you count it as a war?
@Half As Interesting if you want more info about this come and dm me on insta my name is thesheltonianguy001
"which translates to something"
I freaking love this channel's style of humor
The is the best channel because I always get to learn facts
@YoBoiSnyderGG_ 9 man you're on every reply possible stop spamming
@Galaxy TS2 it's really weird because I thought RUclips had a way to recognise such replies and posts as spam, but oh well what can we even expect from YT at this point?
Yes, Simplistic Far-left interpretation of "facts"...
River: *Diverts all the way down and around Mexico City*
USA: "Bippity boppity your capital is now my property"
Mexico: :(
Mexico left the game.
My aunt and Grandma moved from Wisconsin to Rio Rico two years ago. They moved back last month. Now it makes more sense why they had to go cross the border to get there
0:31 "RÍO RICO which translate to something"
HAI : "no need to thank me"
Bet early squad is gonna be huge with the Coronavirus. Thanks for keeping us entertained 👌🏻
"Which translates to something" 😰😰😰 really dude, so many wasted opportunities for "rich" puns
You mean all the south? Even the names are in spanish: Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada...
Colorado
So far, the only assessment is can give of the “free” nebula subscription thats supposed to come with CuriosityStream is it doesn’t exist. Go to the link, sign up to CuriosityStream, go to Nebula, you’re presented with a page that says sign up to get a free trial then $50 for the rest of the subscription. It’s not about the money, its about the difference between what they say and what happens. If they don’t want people to have a free subscription to Nebula, stop trying to entice people to sign up to curiosity stream to get one.
finished watching this video.
Me too
@@unknownpianist7638 lol I lied
this is like discovering a child you never knew you had then giving it up to its foster parents
Still waiting for my topic to be turned into an HAI video
hey there, I signed up for the bundle with curiosity stream and nebula, but for some reason I can't access nebula nor got an email by nebula
2:07 Please explain how a bunch of old black guys would have made the situation better.
wildsurfer12
Precisely!
You're sneakily accustoming all your viewers to be more skeptical of 'facts' being thrown around like that inflation thing at 2:54
@Galaxy TS2 so we know:
1) the year is post 1884
2) that year's dollar is roughly equal to $0.6 1803 dollar
We can then find which year that is and what $10,000 in that year is worth in 2020 dollar
the fact that sam is saying it as grand river and not big river is huring my small frijolito soul
2:56 That adjustment for inflation cracked me up.
New Spain...a.k.a og Mexico😂
so the US land is Mexico but is the US but is in Mexico
Great video lol I loved those gags... you just forgot to show us where the town is exactly.
What's the music at the start of the video? I've heard it on GCN and have been looking for it for days but no dice.
THE WHOLE THING belongs yo MÉXICO
really, the whole thing belongs to the native americans
Honestly, I haven't been a big fan of how nonchalant y'all have become when recording videos. Making jokes isn't a problem, it's when y'all leave out information when making those jokes that kinda bugs me. Still gonna watch though
If 2000 miles is 3000 kilometers, then 1000 miles is 2000 kilometers. And 0 miles is equal 1000 kilometers. Straight facts
0:31 "rich river?" That's the something of the translation perhaps?