Encantada-Ranchito-El Calaboz, also known as El Calaboz Rancheria in the San Pedro de Carricitos Land Grant, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cameron County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,981 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Brownsville–Harlingen Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
The Encantada-Ranchito-El Calaboz is located in southwestern Cameron County at (26.028788, -97.634814). El Calaboz is located in the western part of the CDP, and Ranchito is in the east. La Encantada Elementary School is located in the Ranchito section of the CDP. The community is bordered by the city limits of Brownsville to the east and south and by the Rio Grande, which forms the Mexico–United States border, to the southwest.
U.S. Route 281 passes through the community. La Paloma is to the west, and downtown Brownsville is to the southeast.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.71%, is water.
Demographics
Encantada-Ranchito-El Calaboz first appeared as a census designated place in the 1990 U.S. census.
!Pop 2010
!
!% 2000
!% 2010
!
|-
|White alone (NH)
|35
|33
|style='background: #ffffe6; |59
|1.67%
|1.46%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.98%
|-
|Black or African American alone (NH)
|0
|2
|style='background: #ffffe6; |7
|0.00%
|0.09%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.35%
|-
|Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)
|1
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1
|0.05%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.05%
|-
|Asian alone (NH)
|0
|6
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1
|0.00%
|0.27%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.05%
|-
|Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|Other race alone (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |12
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.61%
|-
|Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.10%
|-
|Hispanic or Latino (any race)
|2,064
|2,214
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,899
|98.29%
|98.18%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |95.86%
|-
|Total
|2,100
|2,255
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,981
|100.00%
|100.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%
|}
As of the census