Armand Bayou

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Armand Bayou
Origin Pasadena
Mouth Mud Lake / Clear Lake
Basin countries United States
Basin area Armand Bayou Watershed

Armand Bayou, is a bayou in U.S. State of Texas. It runs near Galveston Bay in Pasadena and the Clear Lake Area.

The bayou is most well known for the Armand Bayou Nature Center, which it runs through. The bayou and the nature center were named for Armand Yramatagui, former curator of the Burke Baker Planetarium and environmental leader in the 1960s.


See also

On the upper part of Armand Bayou there is a pleistocene fossil site eroding out of the creek bed. See link; http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/279234 "Upper Armand Bayou Fossil Fauna", Pasadena,Texas by George E. Wolf Jr. This site was discovered by George E. Wolf Jr.

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Coordinates: 29°37′0″N 95°6′0″W / 29.61667°N 95.10000°W / 29.61667; -95.10000

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