Editing Zapata, Texas (section)

==Parks and recreation==
The city is located on [[Falcon International Reservoir]]<ref name="test">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/fishboat/fish/recreational/lakes/falcon/|title = Fishing Falcon Reservoir}}</ref> which is at the center of multiple fishing events throughout the year.

The city also served by a number of parks, most notably, Romeo Flores Park.

[[Falcon International Reservoir]] located in Zapata is becoming well known for its bass fishing. The community hosts numerous "Winter Texans" between November and April, most residing in travel camper trailers. The lake has been decreasing in recent years.

More world records in [[hang gliding]] have been set from Zapata than any other location in the world. The World Record Encampment has been taking place at the [[Zapata County Airport]] since 2000, and the first [[hang glider]] flights to break the 308-mile barrier took place there the first year. A distance record of 438 miles was set by Mike Barber in 2002. Three new world records were set in 2005,<ref>[http://ozreport.com/search.php?domains=OzReport.com&sitesearch=OzReport.com&client=pub-2925268477293988&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&q=Zapata&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=Search "Zapata" at The Oz Report], retrieved 2008-05-14</ref><ref>[http://records.fai.org/hang_gliding Hang Gliding and Paragliding World Records] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050212070707/http://records.fai.org/hang_gliding |date=February 12, 2005 }}, [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale]] (FAI), retrieved 2008-05-14</ref> with the current world record, 472 miles, set by Dustin Martin in July, 2012.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/sports/two-men-one-sky-the-silent-realization-of-a-purer-form-of-flight.html?_r=0|title = Two Men, One Sky: A Flight to the Finish|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 12 January 2013|last1 = Sulzberger|first1 = A. G.}}</ref>