Amarillo
Texas cattle country
Amarillo is a city in the Texas Panhandle, known for cattle ranching, oil, and its position along historic Route 66.
The name comes from the Spanish word for yellow, possibly referring to the yellow wildflowers or soil of the area: We stopped in Amarillo on our way to New Mexico. (Lowercase amarillo is the Spanish word for yellow.)
Texas
Elongated state appendage
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- canyonDeep river-cut gorge
- plainsBroad, level grasslands
- ranchingOperating a livestock farm
stockyards · feedlots · rodeo · interstate · truck stop · Route 66 · Texas
Panhandle
Elongated state appendage
ranching · stockyards · feedlots · rodeo · interstate · truck stop · Route 66 · Texas
- Plains CitiesBismarck, Fargo, Rapid City, Sioux Falls, Sioux City
- Texas PanhandleHigh Plains, flat terrain, cotton farming, cattle ranching, Canadian
- Texas TownsAustin, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston
- West TexasLubbock, Odessa, Abilene, Plainview, Snyder
- TexasAlamo, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio
- Route 66Chicago, Santa Monica, Flagstaff, Gallup, Kingman
texas geography
AmarilloGalveston
Texas coastal island city
Corpus Christi · Houston · Brownsville · Beaumont · Rockport