The Aransas River is a short river in south
Texas in the United States. It drains an area of the south Texas coastal plains into the
Gulf of Mexico. It rises in
Bee County southwest of
Beeville
Beeville is a city in Bee County, Texas, United States, with a population of 12,863 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Bee County and home to the main campus of Coastal Bend College. The area around the city contains three prisons oper ...
and north of
Skidmore
Skidmore may refer to:
Places United States
* Skidmore, Kansas
* Skidmore, Maryland
* Skidmore, Michigan
* Skidmore, Missouri
* Skidmore, Texas
* Skidmore, West Virginia
* Skidmore Fountain, a public fountain in Portland, Oregon
Other uses
* Sk ...
, from the confluence of three
creeks: Olmos, Aransas, and Poesta. It flows generally south and southeast in a highly winding course, entering
Copano Bay on the Gulf of Mexico along the
Refugio-
Aransas county line, approximately northwest of
Rockport.
For some of the period when
Texas was a state in Mexico, the Aransas formed the southwestern boundary, separating it from the neighboring Mexican state of
Coahuila
Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico.
Coahuila borders the Mexican states of N ...
.
There's good fishing in this river in
Woodsboro.
See also
*
List of rivers of Texas
*
Aransas Bay
*
Aransas County, Texas
*
Aransas Pass, Texas
External links
*
Rivers of Texas
Bodies of water of Bee County, Texas
Rivers of Refugio County, Texas
Bodies of water of Aransas County, Texas
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