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The San Antonio River is a major waterway that originates in central Texas in a cluster of springs in midtown San Antonio, about 4 miles north of downtown, and follows a roughly southeastern path through the state. [3] It eventually feeds into the Guadalupe River about 10 miles from San Antonio Bay on the Gulf of Mexico.
Cibolo Creek is a stream in South Central Texas that runs approximately 96 miles (154 km) from its source at Turkey Knob (in the Texas Hill Country) near Boerne, Texas, to its confluence with the San Antonio River in Karnes County. The creek is a tributary of the San Antonio River, at the easternmost part of its watershed.
The river travels southeast from its headwaters in the Santa Lucia Range in the Los Padres National Forest and into Lake San Antonio. This is a reservoir behind the San Antonio Dam, an earth-fill dam on the river that forms the largest lake in the county. Downstream from the dam, the river travels east until it joins the Salinas River.
Site of Yanaguana. Yanaguana was the Payaya people village in the geographical area that became the Bexar County city of San Antonio, in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] Some accounts believe the Payaya also referred to the San Antonio River as Yanaguana, and it is sometimes promoted as such for the tourist industry. [2]
The San Antonio River (Spanish, Río San Antonio, [1] Portuguese, Rio Santo Antônio; [2] also called San Antonio Guazú [3]) is a tributary of the Iguazu River. The San Antonio River forms the border between Misiones Province in Argentina and Paraná State in Brazil. South of the San Antonio's source near Barracão, the international border ...
San Antonio Springs (also known as the Blue Hole) is a cluster of springs in Bexar County, Texas. These springs provide a large portion of the water for the San Antonio River , which flows from San Antonio to the Gulf of Mexico .
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Olmos Dam is a detention dam located on the San Antonio River in San Antonio, Texas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was built in the 1920s, following the disastrous September 1921 San Antonio floods . [ 3 ] Work began on the dam on January 19, 1925, [ 4 ] and it was completed in 1926; [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] in 1929 a cut-off channel , to allow excess water to ...