El Chaparral is a census-designated place (CDP) in Starr County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, El Chaparral had a population of 467. It was a new CDP for the 2010 census. It was formed, along with Santa Rosa CDP, from the old Santa Cruz CDP. (Not to be confused with the new Santa Cruz CDP.)
El Chaparral is located at (26.348795, -98.767339).
El Chaparral was one of two CDPs (along with the Santa Rosa CDP) formed out of the deleted Santa Cruz CDP prior to the 2010 U.S. census.
The CDP is within the Rio Grande City Grulla Independent School District (formerly Rio Grande City Consolidated Independent School District)