Palacios
Palacios is a city of 4,400 people on Matagorda Bay in the Gulf Coast region of Texas, 1½-2 hours southwest of Houston. It is especially noted for birding opportunities.
- Type: Town with 5,160 residents
- Description: city in Matagorda County, Texas, United States
- Also known as: “Palacios, Texas” and “Palacios, TX”
- Postal code: 77465
Places of Interest
Highlights include R. J. Hill Building.
R. J. Hill Building
Building
The R. J. Hill Building is a historic commercial building in the small city of Palacios, Texas, which is located on the Gulf coast of Texas. The building was built in 1910 out of cast concrete blocks that were manufactured at the site, at a time that the town "was being promoted as a seaside resort".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Camp Hulen.
Camp Hulen
Hamlet
Camp Hulen was a military training camp near Palacios, Texas, United States that operated from 1925 until 1946 and, at one time, supported the largest concentration of troops for field training in the United States military.
Palacios
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Matagorda, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.7075° or 28° 42′ 27″ north
Longitude
-96.2176° or 96° 13′ 3″ west
Population
5,160
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
IATA airport code
PSX
United Nations Location Code
US PSX
Open location code
76W5PQ4J+XX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Palacios” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بالاسيوس”
- Basque: “Palacios”
- Catalan: “Palacios”
- Cebuano: “Palacios”
- Chechen: “Пелашес”
- Chinese: “Palacios”
- Chinese: “帕拉西奥斯”
- Chinese: “帕拉西奧斯”
- Croatian: “Palacios”
- Danish: “Palacios”
- Dutch: “Palacios”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بالاسيوس”
- French: “Palacios”
- Gilaki: “پالاسیو”
- Haitian: “Palacios, Texas”
- Haitian: “Palacios”
- Irish: “Palacios”
- Italian: “Palacios”
- Japanese: “パラシオス”
- Ladin: “Palacios”
- Malagasy: “Palacios, Texas”
- Malagasy: “Palacios”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palacios”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palacios”
- Norwegian: “Palacios”
- Persian: “پالاسیس، تگزاس”
- Persian: “پلاشس، تگزاس”
- Persian: “پلاشس”
- Polish: “Palacios”
- Portuguese: “Palacios”
- Russian: “Паласиос”
- Serbian: “Палашос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Palacios, Texas”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Palacios”
- South Azerbaijani: “پلاشس، تکزاس”
- Spanish: “Palacios (Texas)”
- Spanish: “Palacios”
- Tatar: “Пелашес”
- Ukrainian: “Пелашес”
- Urdu: “پالاسیوس، ٹیکساس”
- Uzbek: “Palacios”
- Uzbek: “Палаcиос”
- Vietnamese: “Palacios, Texas”
- Vietnamese: “Palacios”
- Welsh: “Palacios, Texas”
- Welsh: “Palacios”
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