Los Ebanos Ferry

Vintage photograph of the Ferry

The Rio Grande

Sunflower seeds

El Chalan

The Lost Ebanos Ferry has been in operation since the 1950s and its hand operated by four to five men that pull it across the Rio Grande by using cables. It may sound like an easy job to just pull a barge with some cables but as you get closer you can see that they have to pull and tug at the cables in a particular way so that the barge goes across the river and not with the current or wind. The barge can carry up to three cars across the river. It is anchored by an Ebony tree on the US side of the border.  The ferry can transport vehicles or people across the border to Mexico to Ciudad Diaz Ordaz.  It is the last hand operated ferry in the Rio Grande Valley.