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Granjeno is a small city in Hidalgo County in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, sitting on the Rio Grande just a few miles southwest of McAllen, a short distance from the border with Mexico.

Granjeno takes its name from the granjeno tree — Celtis pallida, a spiny hackberry native to the South Texas brush country.

The community was founded in the late 18th century, before Texas was even a state, making it one of the oldest settlements in Hidalgo County.

Granjeno's El Granjeno Cemetery, a designated Texas Historic Landmark, was established in 1872 with the burial of Don Antonio Garza and holds graves of families from both sides of the Rio Grande.

The town's Our Lady of Fatima Church was established in 1954 on land donated by Jose Concepcion Anzaldua, and the community already had its own school by 1948.

Granjeno grew during the 1960s through colonia development along the border, and its population reached roughly 545 by 1976 before settling back to about 450 in the mid-1980s.

Granjeno was not incorporated until January 26, 1993, making it one of the younger municipal governments in the Valley despite its 18th-century roots.

The population was 283 at the 2020 census, down slightly from 293 in 2010 and 313 in 2000, when the census counted 93 households and 77 families in the city.

Granjeno covers only about 0.3 square miles of land along Farm to Market Road 494 and the Old Military Road, giving it a population density of roughly 931 people per square mile in 2020.

About 97% of Granjeno's residents identified as Hispanic or Latino in the 2020 census, and the city is part of the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission metropolitan area.