Bandera Pass
levation is a
mountain pass
A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since many of the world's mountain ranges have presented formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both Human migration, human a ...
in
Bandera County, Texas
Bandera County (Spanish: "flag", ) is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. It is located in the Hill Country and its county seat is Bandera.
As of the 2020 census, the population is 20,851. Bandera County is part of the San Antonio-New Brau ...
, in the
United States
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. On the divide between watersheds of the
Guadalupe and
Medina
Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the Holiest sites in Islam, second-holiest city in Islam, ...
Rivers, it is located on
State Highway 173 northwest of the town of
Bandera
Bandera - from a Spanish word meaning a ''flag'' - may refer to:
Places
* Bandera County, Texas
** Bandera, Texas, its county seat
** Bandera Creek, a river in Texas, with its source near Bandera Pass
** Bandera Pass, a mountain pass in Bandera C ...
.
The
Battle of Bandera Pass, a part of the
Texas-Indian wars, took place at the pass in 1843. (Others say this battle was in 1841.)
Nearby
Bandera Creek Bandera Creek is a stream in Bandera County, Texas, in the United States. It rises in Bandera Pass, 2½ miles south of Camp Verde in northeastern Bandera County (at 29°51' N, 99°06' W), and flows south for thirteen miles to its mouth on the Medina ...
was named after Bandera Pass.
References
External links
Bandera Passin the ''
Handbook of Texas''
{{Bandera County, Texas
Landforms of Bandera County, Texas
Mountain passes of Texas