Portal:Houston/Selected picture/September 2007

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Photo credit: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Barbour's Cut area on the Houston Ship Channel, one of the United States's busiest sea ports. The channel is a conduit between the continental interior and the Gulf of Mexico for both petrochemical products and Midwestern grain. The original watercourse for the channel, Buffalo Bayou, has its headwaters 30 miles (48 km) to the west of the city of Houston. It has been used to move goods to the sea since at least 1836.