List of the ten longest Texas rivers
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This is a list of the ten longest Texas rivers. Of the ten streams, all empty into the Gulf of Mexico. Four of the rivers are tributaries: the Pecos flows into the Rio Grande, the Red into the Mississippi River, and the Sabine and Neches flow into Sabine Lake, which is connected to the Gulf of Mexico by the Sabine Pass. The Canadian is a tributary of a tributary. It flows into the Arkansas River, which is itself a tributary of the Mississippi.
- Rio Grande – 1,896 miles, 1,250 miles of which are in Texas — although technically on the border between Texas and Mexico
- Red River – 1,360 miles of which 680 are in Texas
- Brazos River – 1280 miles of which 840 miles are in Texas, making it the longest section of river in Texas
- Pecos River – 926 miles most of which is in New Mexico
- Colorado River – 862 miles almost entirely in Texas of which 600 miles are not dry
- Canadian River – 760 miles of which 200 miles are in Texas
- Trinity River – 710 miles entirely in Texas
- Sabine River – 555 miles of which 360 miles are in Texas
- Neches River – 416 miles entirely in Texas
- Nueces River – 315 miles entirely in Texas
The Trinity River is the longest river with its entire drainage basin in Texas. The Colorado is the longest river with both its source based on river name and its mouth in the state. The actual longest source of the Colorado is in New Mexico.
[edit] References
- River Basin Map of Texas (JPEG). Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin (1996). Retrieved on 2006-07-22.
