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San Antonio is the second largest city in the Lone-Star state of Texas. It is located in the Northern region of Southern
Texas. It currently is the home to roughly 1.3 million people and only growing. The city sits on the Balcones Escarpment.
The seventh largest city in the United States is very well known for:
- The Alamo
- Riverwalk
- SeaWorld San Antonio
- Six Flags Fiesta Texas
- Marion Koogler McKnay Art Museum
- San Antonio SPURS
- The Alamodome
- The Tower of Americas
- Historical Missions
- Fiesta Celebrations
- and much more!!!
Every year, San Antonio is visited by more than 20 million tourists. It is a metropolitan area
that is strongly influenced by Mexican and Spanish cultures to create its very unique Tejano culture.
This is a picture of the famous Alamo mission. It was formerly used as mission to convert Native Americans to Catholicism
and later became a military fort. It now serves as San Antonio's most well known historical landmark.
This image of the San Antonio Riverwalk truly shows how vibrant and colorful it truly can be. The Riverwalk along with
being a major tourist destination also holds the annual River Parade that kickstarts the fun-filled and unique Fiesta
Week.
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History
Native Americans originally lived in the San Antonio valley in the San Pedro
Springs area. They called this region Yanguana or "refreshing waters."
In 1536, Alvar Nuņez Cabeza de Vaca, a shipwrecked captive of Native Americans, visited the region
which would later be named Texas and documented the river now known as The San Antonio River.
A group of Spanish explorers and missionaries came upon the Native
American settlement and river on June 13 1691, the feast day of St. Anthony de Padua, and
named the place and river "San Antonio" in his honor.
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