The Four Regions Of Texas

The Iv Regions of Texas

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By: Lori Roberts

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Great Plains

Sub-Regions
High Plains
Edwards Plateau
Llano Basin (Colina Country)

This region includes the Llano Estacado, the Panhandle, Edwards Plateau, Toyah Basin, and the Llano Uplift. Information technology is bordered on the east by the Caprock Escarpment in the panhandle and by the Balcones Fault to the southeast.

Cities in this region include Austin, San Angelo, Midland, Odessa, Lubbock, and Amarillo. The Colina Country is a pop name for the area of hills along the Balcones Escarpment and is a transitional area between the Great Plains and the Littoral Plains.

With about 15 to 31 inches annual rainfall, the southern end of the Great Plains are gently rolling plains of shrub and grassland, and home to the dramatic Caprock Canyons and Palo Duro Canyon country parks.

National Parks in this expanse are the Lyndon b. Johnson National Historical Park and the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Texas#Great_Plains

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Northward Central Plains

Sub-Regions
Yard Prairie
Cross Timbers
Rolling Plains
Prairie & Lakes

This region is bound by the Caprock Escarpment to the westward, the Edwards Plateau to the south, and the Eastern Cantankerous Timbers to the east. This area includes the cities of Abilene, Wichita Falls, Fort Worth, Yard Prairie, and Dallas.

With about 35 to 50 inches annual rainfall, gently rolling to hilly forested land is function of a larger pine-hardwood forest of oaks, hickories, elm, and gum trees. Soils vary from fibroid sands to tight clays or reddish-bed clays and shales.

The just National Park in this region is the Lake Meredith National Recreation Area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Texas#Interior_Lowlands

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Mountains and Basins

Sub-Regions
West of Pecos River
Upper Rio Grande Valley

The region is in extreme western Texas, west of the Pecos River start with the Davis Mountains on the due east and the Rio Grande to its west and due south.

The region is the but role of Texas regarded every bit mountainous and includes seven named peaks in elevation greater than eight,000 feet. With less than 12 inches annual rainfall, this region includes sand hills, desert valleys, wooded mountain slopes and desert grasslands.

The vegetation diversity includes at least 268 grass species and 447 species of woody plants.

National Parks include the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Rio G Wild and Scenic River, and Fort Davis National Historic Site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Texas#Basin_and_Range_Province

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Coastal Plains

Sub-Regions
Piney Forest
Gulf Coastal Plains
S Texas Patently
Mail Oak Belt
Blackland Prairie

The Coastal Plains includes the barrier islands off the coast of Texas. This region stretches from Paris to San Antonio to Del Rio.

This region has about 20 to 58 inches almanac rainfall making a wide variety of vegetation plentiful. The area is a well-nigh level, tuckered plain dissected by streams and rivers flowing into estuaries and marshes. Sand, dunes, grasslands and table salt marshes make up the areas nearest to the bounding main.

This region is home to the Big Thicket National Preserve, Padre Island National Seashore, and Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Texas#Gulf_Coastal_Plains