Nueces River

Catchment area of ​​the Nueces River

The Nueces River is a 507 km long stream in Texas. Nueces River is called in German as much as " nuts River ". The name gave him settlers who discovered many pecan trees on the riverside.

Geography

The stream originates northwest of San Antonio on the Edwards Plateau in Real County, about 80 kilometers north of Uvalde. Thereafter, it flows southwest through the region of Texas Hill Country. He east of Carrizo Springs turns east and flows through southern Texas. For Mathis, it forms the reservoir Lake Corpus Christi. After that, he still flows through Corpus Christi and opens into the Corpus Christi Bay, a secondary bay of the Gulf of Mexico.

History

In the Mexican-American War, the Mexican demanded the territory to the Nueces River, the Americans to the Rio Grande.

On August 10, 1862 came here for the massacre of the Nueces River in 1862, committed by the Confederate cavalry on German -born civil war refugees.