San Marcos

San Marcos is a college town in the region of in the , about half an hour's drive south of the state's capital, .
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  • Type: Town with 67,600 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Hays County, Texas, United States, that extends into Caldwell and Guadalupe counties
  • Also known as: San Marcos, Texas” and “San Marcos, TX
  • Postal codes: 78666 and 78667

Places of Interest

Highlights include San Marcos station and Meadows Center for Water and the Environment.

Railway station
is an intermodal transit center in San Marcos, Texas with primary ridership towards Dallas–Fort Worth. 19.4% of ridership commutes locally.

Nature reserve
The , formerly Aquarena Springs and later the Aquarena Center, is an educational center in San Marcos, Texas.

Stadium
is a football stadium on the campus of Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. It opened in 1981 and was expanded in 2011–2012 to its present 27,149-seat capacity.

San Marcos

Latitude
29.8826° or 29° 52′ 58″ north
Longitude
-97.9406° or 97° 56′ 26″ west
Population
67,600
Elevation
617 feet (188 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US SMC
Open location code
76X4V3M5+3Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1301347099
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4726491
Wiki­data ID
Q982353
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“San Marcos” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: سان ماركوس
  • Armenian: Սան Մարկոս
  • Asturian: San Marcos (Texas)
  • Asturian: San Marcos
  • Basque: San Marcos
  • Belarusian: Сан-Маркас
  • Catalan: San Marcos
  • Cebuano: San Marcos
  • Chechen: Сан-Маркос
  • Chinese: San Marcos
  • Chinese: 圣马科斯
  • Chinese: 聖馬科斯
  • Croatian: San Marcos
  • Czech: San Marcos
  • Dagbani: San Marcos
  • Danish: San Marcos
  • Dutch: San Marcos
  • Egyptian Arabic: سان ماركوس
  • Esperanto: San Marcos
  • French: San Marcos
  • German: San Marcos
  • Gilaki: سن مارکس
  • Haitian: San Marcos, Texas
  • Haitian: San Marcos
  • Hebrew: סן מרקוס, טקסס
  • Hungarian: San Marcos
  • Irish: San Marcos, Texas
  • Irish: San Marcos
  • Italian: San Marcos
  • Japanese: サンマルコス
  • Korean: 샌마코스
  • Ladin: San Marcos
  • Lithuanian: San Markosas
  • Luxembourgish: San Marcos
  • Macedonian: Сан Маркос
  • Min Nan Chinese: San Marcos
  • Norwegian Bokmål: San Marcos (Texas)
  • Norwegian Bokmål: San Marcos
  • Norwegian: San Marcos
  • Ossetian: Сан-Маркос (Техас)
  • Ossetian: Сан-Маркос
  • Persian: سن مارکوس، تگزاس
  • Persian: سن مارکوس
  • Polish: San Marcos
  • Portuguese: San Marcos
  • Russian: Сан-Маркос
  • Serbian: Сан Маркос
  • Serbo-Croatian: San Marcos, Texas
  • Serbo-Croatian: San Marcos
  • Silesian: San Marcos
  • Slovak: San Marcos
  • Slovenian: San Marcos
  • South Azerbaijani: سن مارکوس، تکزاس
  • Spanish: San Marcos (Texas)
  • Spanish: San Marcos
  • Swedish: San Marcos, Texas
  • Swedish: San Marcos
  • Tajik: Сан Маркос
  • Tatar: Сан-Маркос
  • Turkish: San Marcos, Teksas
  • Turkish: San Marcos
  • Ukrainian: Сан-Маркос
  • Urdu: سان مارکوس، ٹیکساس
  • Urdu: سان مارکوس
  • Uzbek: San Marcos
  • Uzbek: Сан Марcос
  • Vietnamese: San Marcos, Texas
  • Vietnamese: San Marcos
  • Volapük: San Marcos
  • Waray (Philippines): San Marcos, Texas
  • Waray (Philippines): San Marcos
  • Welsh: San Marcos, Texas
  • Welsh: San Marcos

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