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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.
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He tells us it went beyond the Nueces, but he does not tell us it went to the Rio Grande.
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The country from the Nueces to the Rio Grande was a wild but fertile stretch, given over to the sheep and cattle ranches.
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On the other side of the Nueces is "Oakville," a45 miserable settlement, consisting of about twenty wooden huts.
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Hubbs (1957:93) pointed out that the Ro Grande-Nueces divide also limits a large number of species of fish.
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