Pecos

American  

[pey-kuhs, -kohs] / ˈpeɪ kəs, -koʊs /

noun

1. a river flowing SE from N New Mexico through W Texas to the Rio Grande. 735 miles (1,183 km) long.

2. a town in W Texas, near the Pecos River.

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Pecos British  

/ ˈpeɪkəs, ˈpekɔs /

noun

1. a river in the southwestern US, rising in N central New Mexico and flowing southeast to the Rio Grande. Length: about 1180 km (735 miles)

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Example Sentences

In May, a well on the Pecos County property of Laura Briggs started spraying saltwater like a fire hydrant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

In Bakersfield, professional baseball remains, but only in the form of the Pecos League, a bare-bones independent league that averaged 324 fans per game last year, according to the annual Number Tamer attendance analysis.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2024

The counts listed in the complaint include depriving the public of access to the Pecos River and public nuisance.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2023

The economy of Pecos and a handful of surrounding towns — some little more than sand-blown highway intersections and crowded gas station convenience stores — revolves around the oil fields.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2023

From the Pueblo communities of the Southwest, travelers took roads eastward onto the semiarid plains along tributaries of the Pecos River.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz