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Medina River
The Medina River is located in south central Texas in the Medina Valley. Named after Pedro Medina, a Spanish engineer, by Alonso De Leon , Spanish governor of Coahuila, New Spain in 1689. It was also known as the Rio Mariano, Rio San Jose, or Rio de Bagres (Catfish river). Once it served as the official boundary between Texas and Coahuila with the San Antonio River being its tributary and subsequently discharging into the Gulf of Mexico. It starts in springs in the Edwards Plateau in northwest Bandera County, Texas and merges with the San Antonio River in Medina, Texas in Webb County, Texas,for a course of 120 miles. It contains the Medina Dam in NE Medina County, Texas which restrains Lake Medina. Much of its course is owned and operated by the Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Water District to provide irrigation services to farmers and ranches.
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