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Nueces
[ noo-ey-suhs, nyoo- ]
noun
- a river in S Texas, flowing SE to Corpus Christi Bay, on the Gulf of Mexico. 338 miles (545 km) long.
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That our Congress understood the boundary of Texas to extend beyond the Nueces.
He tells us it went beyond the Nueces, but he does not tell us it went to the Rio Grande.
The country from the Nueces to the Rio Grande was a wild but fertile stretch, given over to the sheep and cattle ranches.
On the other side of the Nueces is "Oakville," a45 miserable settlement, consisting of about twenty wooden huts.
Hubbs (1957:93) pointed out that the Ro Grande-Nueces divide also limits a large number of species of fish.
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