San Jacinto River (Galveston Bay)

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San Jacinto River
San Jacinto River catchment area

San Jacinto River catchment area

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location Southeast of the US state Texas
River system San Jacinto River
muzzle Galveston Bay Coordinates: 29 ° 32 ′ 49 "  N , 94 ° 56 ′ 53"  W 29 ° 32 ′ 49 "  N , 94 ° 56 ′ 53"  W.

length 45 km
Catchment area 10,297 km²

The San Jacinto River is a 45 km long river in the southeast of the US state Texas and runs from the dam of Lake Houston in Harris County to Galveston Bay . Until 1858 the area was home to the Karankawa .

The San Jacinto River is formed from two arms known as the East Fork and West Fork . The western arm is 145 km long, initially feeds Lake Conroe and then flows south through Montgomery County to then form Lake Houston together with the eastern arm in northeast Harris County. The eastern arm rises in San Jacinto County , north of the Sam Houston National Forests and has a length of around 110 km. Ër then flows south through Cleveland in Liberty County and joins Lake Houston at its northern end.

The catchment area covers 10,297 km². It flows through an area that leads largely through sandy or loamy terrain and is only a few meters above sea ​​level . Its banks are covered with pine, elm, oak and willow.

Below Lake Houston, the San Jacinto River joins the Buffalo Bayou and together with this feeds the Houston Ship Channel , a waterway that was built in 1914 to connect Houston with the sea. This consists of the deepened and widened lower reaches of the Buffalo Bayou and a fairway in Galveston Bay . Since the lower reaches of the San Jacinto were deepened, the river is navigable for the last 32 km of its course. The lower course of the river is under the influence of the tides .

On the banks of the swollen by rains river was in 1836 during the Texas Revolution , the Battle of San Jacinto fought. Today there is a monument on the site, the San Jacinto Monument . The history of the area around the river is eventful. Once located in the border area between French and Spanish colonial interests , this is probably the river whose course was first explored under the name Aranzazu in 1746 by the Spanish captain Joaqun Orobio y Basterra. There are two interpretations of the origin of the name of the river. Jacinto could on the one hand go back to the Spanish expression for the hyacinths that floated on the surface, on the other hand the estuary was discovered on the name day of Holy Hyacinth , which falls on August 17th.

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