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Houston's air quality has often been compared to Los Angeles and Beijing. [49] Houston has introduced many programs since the 2000 federal order to reduce air pollution in the city. [citation needed] The most notable project was the METRORail light rail system constructed in 2004. The light rail system was designed to encourage Houstonians to ...
H-E-B Mi Tienda ("My Store") in northern Houston The Supermercado de Walmart store in the Spring Branch area was designed to accommodate Hispanic customers; it opened in 2009 and closed in 2014. In 1991, most Hispanic-owned businesses in Greater Houston were in industries with lower profit margins, such as construction, distribution, and services.
The first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520. While searching for a passage between the Gulf of Mexico and Asia, [4] Álvarez de Pineda created the first map of the northern Gulf Coast. [5] This map is the earliest recorded document of Texas history ...
The city, which is the ninth-largest in the United States by area, covers 601.7 square miles (1,558 km 2), of which 579.4 square miles (1,501 km 2), or 96.3%, is land and 22.3 square miles (58 km 2), or 3.7%, is water. [1] Houston is located in the Gulf Coastal Plain biome, and its vegetation is
The former city hall of Magnolia Park. Magnolia Park (Spanish: Parque Magnolia) is an area of the East End, [1] Houston, Texas, located near the Houston Ship Channel.One of the oldest Hispanic neighborhoods in the City of Houston, Magnolia Park was formerly incorporated as the City of Magnolia Park in eastern Harris County.
Cockrell Butterfly Area, Houston Museum of Natural Science Space Center Houston is the official visitors’ center of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.Space Center Houston includes many interactive exhibits—including Moon rocks and a Space Shuttle simulator—in addition to special presentations that tell the story of NASA's crewed space flight program.
La Voz de Houston (Spanish: "The Voice of Houston") is a Spanish-language weekly newspaper distributed by the Houston Chronicle, and a subsidiary of the Houston Chronicle. [1] The newspaper's offices are located in the Houston Chronicle's newspaper production plant at the 610 Loop and U.S. Route 59 (Southwest Freeway). [2] This plant is the ...
Port Houston is an industrial, mostly Hispanic community [1] located near the Houston Ship Channel and the Port of Houston. In a 2007 article John Nova Lomax of the Houston Press described Port Houston as "a blue-collar Mexican neighborhood of wrought-iron fences and wood-framed houses." [2] Port Houston has many small houses. Petrochemical ...