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 Blackwater Draw, Roosevelt County, New Mexico to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico with a 45,000-square-mile drainage basin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- 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”, and “Uhkto’wusi’yohe”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Freeport and Velasco.
Freeport
Town
Freeport is a city in Brazoria County, Texas, United States, located on the Gulf of Mexico, founded in 1912. According to the 2020 census, the city population was 10,696, down from 12,049 in 2010, where Hispanic or Latino were 52% of the population. Freeport is situated 5 miles north of Brazos River.
Velasco
Hamlet
Velasco was a town in Texas, United States, that was later merged with the city of Freeport by an election conducted by eligible voters of both municipalities on February 9, 1957. Velasco is situated 6 miles north of Brazos River.
Brazos River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Brazoria, Texas, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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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”
- 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”
- “Brazos”
- “Río de los Brazos de Dios”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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