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Map showing the locations of missions, including those belonging to San Antonio Missions National Historical Park in Texas. San Antonio missions are shown as green building icons and other Spanish mission sites are shown in brown. The terrain is represented in pale green and tan, and the Gulf of America in blue.

Extended Description

The Rio Grande runs between the United States and Mexico. The towns of Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Laredo, and Brownville are marked in Texas and Monclova and Monterrey, along with the states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas are labeled in Mexico. Six missions are listed in San Antonio. Green sites include Nuestra Señora de la Purisima Concepción de Acuña, San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, San Juan Capistrano, and San Francisco de la Espada. Brown sites are San Antonio de Valero (Alamo) and San Francisco Xavier de Nájera.

Clustered between San Antonio and the eastern coastline are La Bahía, Nuestra Señora de Rosario, Nuestra Señora del Refugio, and Nuestra Señora de la Bahía del Espíritu Sando de Zúñiga, all represented with brown building icons. Nuestra Señora de la Luz del Orcoquisac is closer to Houston in the north. West of San Antonio and also represented in brown are San Lorenza de la Santa Cruz and Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria del Cañon. The final mission is San Juan Bautista just south of the Mexico border.

The Brazos River winds to the gulf just south of Houston, and the San Antonio River and Nueces River run between San Antonio and the US-Mexico line. A web of trails, represented as brown dashed lines, in Texas fan from the missions in San Antonio to the missions to the east and down to the southern border. More lines represented in pale gray cross Mexico.

Legend

A legend in the lower right corner of the map reads as follows:

Green building icon for San Antonio Missions National Historical Park,

Brown building icon for Other Spanish mission sites,

Brown dashed line for El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail, and

Gray dashed line for El Camino Real de los Tejas.

A scale below measures distances of 50 and 100 kilometers and 50 and 100 miles. Text below reads, “The map depicts modern boundaries, reservoirs, and populated places.”