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LA PEÑUSCA, TEXAS. La Peñusca is a colonia off Farm Road 1575 on the southern shore of Resaca de los Cuates,^qv a mile west of Los Fresnos in central Cameron County. In the late 1940s the community was composed of a few scattered farms. In 1983 there were twenty-seven dwellings there.

Alicia A. Garza

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