How much cropland receives irrigation water from the Rio Grande?

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Rio Grande The Rio Grande basin and its drainage network.

Excluding areas irrigated above the reservoirs, the Rio Grande provides irrigation water for approximately 2,100,000 acres (850,000 hectares) of cropland. Slightly more than half of this irrigated land is located in Mexico.1