Texas Rivers

When you look at the map on this page of "Major Texas Rivers" from the Texas Water Development Board, you can understand why the Texas Gulf Coast is an exciting place to enjoy our water resources in the outdoors.

Texas devotes substantial time and resources support and improving its water resources. These resources not only provide important ecotourism opportunities for the state, but also Texas ports provide significant revenue.

You can order this map and other great maps of Texas directly from the Board on the Web at http://www.twdb.state.tx.us/mapping/index.htm or you can reach them at:

Texas Water Development Board
P.O. Box 13231, Capitol Station
1700 N. Congress Avenue
Austin, Texas 78711-3231
Telephone (512) 463-7847
Fax (512) 475-2053 Email info@twdb.state.tx.us

Southeast Texas

As we focus in more on Southeast Texas, you can see from the map that this area of Texas offers vast expanses of water ways. If you exclude Houston and other urban intrudences, viewing this same area on an aerial photograph would should vast coastal marshes, water, and vast oceans of green. Moving away from the coastal areas, you move into what is known as the Primative Big Thicket area that consists of more than 3.5 million acres of some of the most diverse ecosystems in the world.