South Texas
Below San Antonio
South Texas is the region of Texas south of San Antonio, extending to the Rio Grande and the Mexican border.
The area is predominantly Hispanic, with a culture shaped by its proximity to Mexico—Spanish is widely spoken, and Tex-Mex cuisine originated here.
The landscape is largely flat ranch country and agricultural land: She grew up on a South Texas cattle ranch.
The term carries cultural connotations beyond mere geography, suggesting a distinctive borderland identity.
- Rio GrandeMajor southwestern waterway
- Rio Grande ValleyTexas region along Mexican border
- maquiladorasMexican export-processing factories
- TejanoTexas-Mexican musical style
- cattle ranchingRaising bovines commercially
oil drilling · hunting lease · quinceañera · Tex-Mex cuisine · barbacoa · Gulf Coast · mariachi music · vaquero · brushland · colonias · cross-border trade · Hispanic population · Spanish missions · bilingual communities · citrus farming · Mexican-American War · mesquite · sunbaked
- Texan cultureTex-Mex, breakfast tacos, brisket, fajitas, queso
- Texas PlacesAustin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth
- Texas CoastGalveston, Gulf of Mexico, barrier islands, coastal erosion, storm surge
South TexasNorth Texas
Upper Lone Star region
Texas Panhandle · Amarillo · West Texas · Lubbock · East Texas