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Cumulatively, Laguna Madre is approximately 130 miles (210 km) long, the length of Padre Island in the US. The main extensions include Baffin Bay in Upper Laguna Madre, Red Fish Bay just below the Saltillo Flats, and South Bay near the Mexican border. As a natural ecological unit, the Laguna Madre of the United States is the northern half of ...
The Guadalupe Estuary is the fourth largest of the Texas estuaries, with a surface area of 143,000 acres (58,000 ha) including San Antonio Bay and its extensions to the southwest and northeast in Mesquite Bay and Espiritu Santo Bay. The natural portions have an average depth of around 2.5 feet (0.8 m).
South Padre Island is a resort town in Cameron County, Texas, United States. [4] It is part of the Brownsville–Harlingen Metropolitan Statistical Area.The population was 2,066 at the 2020 census.
Media related to South Bay (Texas) at Wikimedia Commons; Rio Grande Valley travel guide from Wikivoyage; East, Jeffrey W.; Solis, R.S.; Ockerman, D.J. (June 1997). "Computed Discharges at Five Sites in Lower Laguna Madre Near Port Isabel, Texas" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey ~ Fact Sheet 167-98. United States Geological Survey. doi:10.3133/fs16798.
Guadalupe Estuary (San Antonio Bay) 27°59' N San José Island: 21 miles (34 km) Mission–Aransas Estuary (Aransas Bay) 27°44' N Mustang Island: 18 miles (29 km) Nueces Estuary (Corpus Christi Bay) 26°50' N Padre Island: 113 miles (182 km) Laguna Madre Estuary 26°2' N Brazos Island: 4.0 miles (6.4 km) Laguna Madre Estuary
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Port Mansfield Channel or Mansfield Cut is an artificial waterway encompassing the Laguna Madre positioned at the 97th meridian west on the earth's longest barrier island known as Padre Island. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] During Post–World War II , the tidal inlet was dredged as a private channel differentiating North Padre Island better known as Padre ...
In September 2007, Corpus Christi, Texas wildlife officials found a record 128 Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests on Texas beaches, including 81 in the Padre Island National Seashore and 4 on nearby Mustang Island. Wildlife officials had released 10,594 Kemp's ridleys hatchlings along the Texas coast in 2007.