Trinity River (Texas)
The Trinity River is a 710-mile (1,140 km) river, the longest with a watershed entirely within the U.S. state of Texas. It rises in extreme northern Texas, a few miles south of the Red River. The headwaters are separated by the high bluffs on the southern side of the Red River.
| Trinity River Río de La Santísima Trinidad Río de La Trinidad | |
|---|---|
Trinity River, Dallas, Texas (postcard, c. 1901–1907) | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | North Texas, near the Red River |
| Mouth | |
• location | Trinity Bay, at Chambers County, Texas |
• coordinates | 29°44′35″N 94°42′12″W |
• elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
| Length | 710 miles (1,140 km) |
| Basin size | 15,589 sq mi (40,380 km2) |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 6,368 cu ft/s (180.3 m3/s) |
Indigenous peoples call the northern sections Arkikosa and the parts closer to the coast Daycoa. French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, in 1687, named it Riviere des canoës ("River of Canoes"). In 1690 Spanish explorer Alonso de León named the river "La Santísima Trinidad" ("the Most Holy Trinity"), in the Spanish Catholic practice of memorializing places by religious references.
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