Texas
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About Texas
Texas or the Lone Star State, is a state with enormous natural resources (oil, sulfur, salt, helium, asphalt, graphite, bromine, natural gas), a major agricultural state (cattle, sheep, and cotton) and an industrial giant. Texas is cattle country with more land farmed here than in any other state in the USA, with an estimated cattle population of 16 million.
Chemicals, oil refining, food processing, machinery, and transportation equipment are among the major Texas manufacturing industries. Texas possesses three of the top ten most populous cities in the United States: Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.
Good to know
- Capital: Austin
- Climate: Texas is a huge state and has an extreme variety of weather. Texas has very warm summers with temperatures higher than 38°C, while it rarely freezes in winter. Spring, autumn and winter are most pleasant for most of the state.
- Timezone: UTC -6
- No. of inhabitants: 22,490,022 (2004)
- Travel alert: EnjoyYourWorld strongly advises you to take necessary precautions for a safe travel. For more info please follow this link
Highlights
- The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston
- The Alamo in San Antonio where Texas defenders fell to Mexican General Santa Anna, is considered the cradle of Texas liberty. This is where the phrase Remember the Alamo originated. While is San Antonio a must visit is the San Antonio Riverwalk (also known as the Paseo del Rio) the pedestrian street, one level down from the automobile street lined with restaurants and shops, taking you to such sites as Alamo Plaza, Hemisfair Park and Tower Life Building.
- Big Bend National Park-one of the largest national parks, home to canyons, desert and mountains.
- Caprock Canyons State Park, 160 km southeast of Amarillo in Briscoe County, home of the official Texas State Bison Herd. The park with its scenic canyons offers camping facilities, hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking, boating and fishing opportunities. Some of the trails are very difficult and only recommended for the experienced equestrian and mountain bike riders.
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park
- Texas Motor Speedway-Fort Worth, home to numerous NASCAR events
Getting Around
- Airports
- Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport between Dallas and Fort Worth is the largest airport in state, the second largest in the United States, and third largest in the world.
- Texas's second-largest air facility is the George Bush Intercontinental Airport. With 30 destinations in Mexico it offers service to more Mexican destinations than any other US airport.
- Texas tours
- Wild West Texas-four day tour from El Paso to Fort Davis to Presidio the hottest spot in the USA, on to Lajitas and Uvalde in the Hill Country Region. The tour takes you through Native American Reservations, some of the most beautiful desert country and to the Big Bend National Park with its endless hiking possibilities
- Lone Star Heritage-three day tour, from Amarillo to Gainesville. Starting at Amarillo with its Livestock Auction you will see famous roadside attractions such a Cadillac Ranch, the stunning Palo Duro Canyon and serene desert scenery.
- From the Coast to the Heart of Texas-five days tour, starting at Galveston on to Houston, Palestine, Waco, Glen Rose and the Dinosaur Valley State Park on the banks of the Paluxy River with some of the best-preserved dinosaur tracks in Texas, before ending at Lake Granbury
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