Brazos River

The Brazos River, called the Río de los Brazos de Dios by early Spanish explorers, is the 14th-longest river in the United States at 1,280 miles from its headwater source at the head of , to its mouth at the with a 45,000-square-mile drainage basin.
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  • Stream
  • …lies at an elevation of 3 feet (1 metre)
  • Description: river in Texas, United States
  • Also known as
    “Brazos de Dios”
    “Colorado River”
    “La Trinidad”
    “Los Brazos de Dios”
    “Maligne”
    “Rio Brasos de Dios”
    “Rio Brazos de Dios”
    “Rio Colorado”
    “Rio de los Brazos de Dios”
    “Rio Espiritu Santo”
    “Rio Trinidad”
    “Salt Fork Brazos River”
    “The River of the Arms of God”
    “Tokonohono”
    “Uhkto’wusi’yohe”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Freeport and Velasco.
is a city in , United… is situated 5 miles north of Brazos River.
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Brazos River

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Latitude
28.87581° or 28° 52′ 33″ north
Longitude
-95.37827° or 95° 22′ 42″ west
Open location code
76W6VJGC+8M
Geo­Names ID
4676161
Wiki­data ID
Q903306

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Brazos River” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Brazosrivier”
  • Arabic: “نهر برازوس”
  • Armenian: “Բրազոս”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Brazos”
  • Belarusian: “Бразас”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাজোস নদী”
  • Breton: “Brazos”
  • Bulgarian: “Бразос”
  • Catalan: “Brazos”
  • Cebuano: “Brazos River”
  • Chinese: “布拉索斯河”
  • Chuvash: “Бразос”
  • Croatian: “Brazos”
  • Czech: “Brazos”
  • Danish: “Brazos River”
  • Dutch: “Brazos”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر برازوس”
  • Esperanto: “Brazos”
  • Esperanto: “Río de los Brazos de Dios”
  • Esperanto: “rivero Brazos”
  • Esperanto: “Rivero Brazos”
  • Finnish: “Brazosjoki”
  • French: “Brazos”
  • German: “Brazos River”
  • German: “Brazos”
  • German: “Rio Brazos de Dios”
  • German: “Rio de los Brazos de Dios”
  • German: “The River of the Arms of God”
  • Greek: “Μπράζος”
  • Hebrew: “בראזוס”
  • Irish: “Abhainn Brazos”
  • Italian: “Brazos”
  • Japanese: “ブラゾス川”
  • Kazakh: “Бразос”
  • Korean: “브래저스강”
  • Latvian: “Brazosa”
  • Lithuanian: “Brazosas”
  • Lithuanian: “Breizosas”
  • Mingrelian: “ბრაზოსი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brazos”
  • Norwegian: “Brazos”
  • Persian: “رود برازوس”
  • Polish: “Brazos River”
  • Polish: “Brazos”
  • Polish: “Rio Brazos de Dios”
  • Polish: “Rio de los Brazos de Dios”
  • Polish: “The River of the Arms of God”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Brazos”
  • Russian: “Бразос (река)”
  • Russian: “Бразос”
  • Russian: “Брасос”
  • Serbian: “Бразос”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brazos”
  • Slovenian: “Brazos River”
  • Slovenian: “Brazos”
  • Slovenian: “reka Brazos”
  • Spanish: “Rio Brazos”
  • Spanish: “Río Brazos”
  • Spanish: “Río de los Brazos de Dios”
  • Swedish: “Brazos River”
  • Swedish: “Brazosfloden”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำแบรซัส”
  • Ukrainian: “Бразос”
  • Venetian: “Brazos”
  • Vietnamese: “sông Brazos”
  • Welsh: “Afon Brazos”
  • Welsh: “Brazos”

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