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Rancho Viejo is a town in Cameron County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,754 at the 2000 census. The first settlement in the area developed when José Salvador de la Garza and his wife María Gertrudis de la Garza Falcón moved to the site of what is now Rancho Viejo around 1770. There they founded the ranches Espíritu Santo and El Tanque, later known as El Rancho Viejo. In 1968 Bill Bass purchased 280 acres to develop the Rancho Viejo Resort and Country Club. Bass filed for bankruptcy in 1976, and in 1977 the country club became the property of the Pittsburgh National Bank, which on December 28, 1978, sold it to Rancho Viejo, Incorporated. By then a community had developed around the Rancho Viejo Country Club. In 1980 the community voted ninety-six to thirty-two to incorporate. www.ranchoviejotexas.com