Llano River
Catchment area of the Llano River
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The Llano River ( from Spanish llano = level plains) is about 169 km long tributary of the Colorado River in Texas. The river is formed by the confluence of its two source rivers of North Llano River and South Llano River near the village of Junction and ends near the village of Kingsland in the Lake Lyndon B. Johnson, a reservoir of the Colorado River. The river flows on its way through the Texas County Kimble, Mason and Llano in a north-easterly direction until it turns just outside the town of Llano for the last approximately 30 km from the mouth to the southeast.
History
At the time of the first exploration of the Llanos by Europeans, Domingo Ramón 1711, Pedro de Rábago y Terán in 1754 and José Mares 1787/88, lived in central Texas to the river Sana Indians, a tribe of the Tonkawa, for these flows the River was los named Chanes or Sana, it got its present name later in the 19th century, just before the mid-19th century the first European -born settlers in the valley of the Llano settled, first came from Fredericksburg starting ethnic German settlers in the 1850s then emerged with Castell, Hedwig Hill Llano and the first urban settlements. In the 1870s, built around the new railway line, the settlements Kingsland and Junction. However, much of the river was undeveloped and the millennium.
North and South Llano River
The North Llano River rises in central Sutton County at 30 ° 37 '0 "N, 100 ° 26 ' 0" W30.616666666667 - 100.43333333333 and flows for about 40 km in the east to the confluence with the South Llano; important tributaries are the approximately 13 km long Stark Creek ( source at 30 ° 36 '0 "N, 99 ° 58 ' 0" W30.6 - 99.966666666667, it flows into the North Llano at 30 ° 30 '0 "N, 99 ° 57 '0 " W30.5 - 99.95 ), the 27 km long Maynard Creek ( source at 30 ° 19 ' 0 " N, 100 ° 9 ' 0 " W30.316666666667 - 100.15, estuary at 30 ° 29 ' 0 " N, 100 ° 2 ' 0 " W30.483333333333 - 100.03333333333 ), the Copperas Creek, the source with the longest tributary, the East Copperas Creek, is 45 km long and 20 km long Bear Creek, the source with the longest tributary, the West Bear Creek 41 km long ( source of Bear Creek at 30 ° 44 '0 "N, 99 ° 53 ' 0" W30.733333333333 - 99.883333333333, of West Bear Creek at 30 ° 41 '0 "N, 100 ° 4' 0" W30. 683333333333-100.06666666667; confluence with the North Llano at 30 ° 31 '0 "N, 99 ° 50 ' 0" W30.516666666667 - 99.833333333333 ).
The South Llano River rises in northwestern Edwards County at 30 ° 13 '0 "N, 100 ° 29 ' 0" W30.216666666667 - 100.48333333333 and flows for about 49 km in a north-easterly direction to the confluence with the North Llano. The South Llano River applies - in addition to Colorado - as one of the candidates for the San Clemente said river, on which the Spanish explorer Juan Domínguez de Mendoza in 1683 stayed for six weeks. At the confluence with the North Llano South Llano has an average discharge of 2.10 m³ / s Important tributaries are the 24 km long Cedar Creek, which flows into Lake Junction in Junction, the long Paint Creek ( source at 29 ° 59 '0 "N, 99 ° 42 ' 0" W29.983333333333 - 99.7, estuary 55 km the South Llano at 30 ° 18 '0 "N, 99 ° 54 ' 0" W30.3 - 99.9 ), as well as the Seven Hundred Springs (30 ° 16 '0 "N, 99 ° 54 ' 0" W30.266666666667 - 99.9 ), where in a karst area emerge numerous sources of limestone caves, which together form the eleventh largest source of the State of Texas. On South Llano 1990, the 2 km ² Biggest in South Llano River State Park was established, which is an important breeding area of the Rio Grande turkey (Meleagris gallopavo intermedia).
Nature
The Llano River and its two source rivers are undeveloped and largely in its natural state. Their beds they dig mostly by solid rock (mostly granite and limestone). You are the hunting ground of numerous birds of prey, such as bald and golden eagles, and numerous kingfishers and Hawk. The clear and mountain river -like water is estimated from canoeing and rafting athletes and also by anglers because of its wealth of fish (mainly grouper species).