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The Nueces River is a river in the U.S. state of Texas, approximately 315 mi (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 north of the Rio Grande.
It rises northwest of San Antonio in the Edwards Plateau, in Real County approximately 50 mi (80 km) north of Uvalde. It flows south throgh the Texas Hill
Country, past Barksdale and Crystal City,
approaching to within 35 mi (56 km) of the Rio Grande on the border with Mexico. East
of Carrizo Springs it turns to the east, flowing the
scrub plains of South Texas, across rural Dimmit,
La Salle,and McMullen counties. In central Live Oak County it is joined from the northwest by the Frio River, then flows southeast along the
coastal plain past Mathis, where it is impounded to form the Lake Corpus Christi reservoir. It enters Corpus Christi Bay on the
Gulf of Mexico at Corpus Christi.
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