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San Pedro is located in southern Cameron County at (25.979523, -97.598789), [3] 8 miles (13 km) northwest of the center of Brownsville via U.S. Route 281. The community is less than one mile northeast of the Rio Grande, which forms the Mexico–United States border.
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 .
San Antonio (/ ˌ s æ n æ n ˈ t oʊ n i oʊ / SAN an-TOH-nee-oh; Spanish for "Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 U.S. census. [12]
San Pedro was founded in the 1840s and had a post office from 1848 to 1857 and from 1858 to 1905. A Presbyterian Church was organized in 1889. In the 1930s the community consisted of a church, a cemetery, and several houses. By the 1990s, only the church, cemetery, and scattered houses remained. [2]
Padre Island is the second-largest island by area in the contiguous United States, after Long Island in New York on the Atlantic Coast. It is about 113 miles (182 km) long [2] [3]: 186 and 1.8 miles (3 km) wide, [4] stretching from the city of Corpus Christi, in the north, to the resort community of South Padre Island in the south. The island ...
Greater San Antonio has a number of communities spread out across several counties and regions. It is centered on the city of San Antonio, the second largest city in Texas, second largest city in the Southern United States, [6] and the seventh largest city in the USA, with roughly 1.5 million residents spread across approximately 500 square miles.
North entrance to mall at Saks Fifth Avenue. On September 23, 1960, Community Research & Development Corporation (later to become The Rouse Company) opens the doors to North Star Mall, a new 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m 2) fully enclosed shopping center located at the intersection of San Pedro Avenue and Loop 13 (now Interstate 410 Connally Loop).
San Pedro Island is applied to several islands throughout the world, usually by Spanish explorers in honor of Saint Peter. Isla San Pedro, a private island off the southeastern shore of Chiloé Island, Chile; San Pedro Nolasco Island, in the Gulf of California; South Georgia Island, called San Pedro Island by the Argentine government