In the late 18th century, they lived on the southern bank of the Rio Grande, not far from Reynosa.
Swiss-American ethnologist Albert S. Gatschet worked with eight Comecrudo elders who remembered some of the language to record vocabulary words in 1886.
[1] The name Comecrudo means "raw meat eaters" in Spanish.
Spanish colonists also called them the Carrizo,[1] meaning "reed.
[2] An organization in Floresville, Texas, claims descent from the Comecrudo and formed the Carrizo Comecrudo Nation of Texas Inc.[3] As an unrecognized organization, they are neither a federally recognized tribe[4] nor a state-recognized tribe.