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The Nueces with a low water level through Cotulla, the seat of La Salle County, Texas. The Nueces River (/ nj u ˈ eɪ s ɪ s / new-AY-siss; Spanish: Río Nueces, IPA: [ˈri.o ˈnweses]) is a river in the U.S. state of Texas, about 315 miles (507 km) long. [1] It drains a region in central and southern Texas southeastward into the Gulf of Mexico.
Turkey Creek (Nueces River tributary) This page was last edited on 15 May 2019, at 15:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Nueces Strip or Wild Horse Desert is the area of South Texas between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. [1]According to the narrative of Spanish missionary Juan Agustín Morfi, there were so many wild horses swarming in the Nueces Strip in 1777 "that their trails make the country, utterly uninhabited by people, look as if it were the most populated in the world".
Lake Corpus Christi is a 21,000-acre (85 km 2) reservoir on the Nueces River, lying four miles (6.4 km) northwest of Mathis.The lake is a recreational spot in South Texas offering swimming, skiing, boating, and fishing.
Nueces River – 315 miles (507 km) entirely in Texas; The Trinity River is the longest river with its entire drainage basin in Texas. The Colorado is the longest river with both its source based on river name and its mouth in the state. The longest source of the Colorado of any kind is in New Mexico.
Tributaries of the Nueces River (5 P) Pages in category "Nueces River" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Nueces River; T. Turkey Creek (Nueces River tributary) This page was last edited on 21 July 2017, at 18:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Nueces Massacre, also known as the Massacre on the Nueces, was a violent confrontation between Confederate soldiers and Texas Germans [5] on August 10, 1862, in Kinney County, Texas. Many first-generation immigrants from Germany settled in Central Texas in a region known as the Hill Country .