Nueces River
The 865th longest river in the world
The Nueces River (new-AY-siss, Río Nueces, [ˈri.o ˈnweses]) is a river in the U.S. state of Texas, about 315 miles (507 km) long. It drains a region in central and southern Texas southeastward into the Gulf of Mexico. It is the southernmost major river in Texas northeast of the Rio Grande. Nueces is Spanish for nuts, specifically pecans; early settlers named the river after the numerous pecan trees along its banks.
Flows through: United States.
River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.