A report on Llano Estacado
Region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas.
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Edwards Plateau
1 linksGeographic region at the crossroads of Central, South, and West Texas.
Geographic region at the crossroads of Central, South, and West Texas.
It is bounded by the Balcones Fault to the south and east, the Llano Uplift and the Llano Estacado to the north, and the Pecos River and Chihuahuan Desert to the west.
Lubbock, Texas
2 linksLubbock
Lubbock
The city is in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado, and ecologically is part of the southern end of the High Plains, lying at the economic center of the Lubbock metropolitan area, which has an estimated population of 327,424 in 2020.
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
2 linksSpanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from what is now Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.
Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from what is now Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.
With the Turk guiding him, Vázquez de Coronado and his army might have crossed the flat and featureless steppe called the Llano Estacado in the Texas Panhandle and Eastern New Mexico, passing through the present-day communities of Hereford and Canadian.
Comancheria
1 linksRegion of New Mexico, west Texas and nearby areas occupied by the Comanche before the 1860s.
Region of New Mexico, west Texas and nearby areas occupied by the Comanche before the 1860s.
It also included West Texas, the Llano Estacado, the Texas Panhandle, the Edwards Plateau (including the Texas Hill Country), Eastern New Mexico, western Oklahoma including the Oklahoma Panhandle and the Wichita Mountains, southeastern Colorado and southwestern Kansas.
Colorado River (Texas)
2 linksApproximately 862 mi long river in the U.S. state of Texas.
Approximately 862 mi long river in the U.S. state of Texas.
The Colorado River originates south of Lubbock, on the Llano Estacado near Lamesa.
Dry lake
0 linksBasin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappeared when evaporation processes exceeded recharge.
Basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappeared when evaporation processes exceeded recharge.
This term is used e.g. on the Llano Estacado and other parts of the Southern High Plains and is commonly used to address paleolake sediments in the Sahara like Lake Ptolemy.
Kiowa
2 linksIndigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States.
Indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States.
Sálqáhyóp or Sálqáhyói (″Southerners″, lit. ′Hot People′, 'southern Kiowa', lived in the Llano Estacado (Staked Plains), Oklahoma Panhandle and Texas Panhandle, allies of the Comanche).
Quanah Parker
2 linksQuanah Parker (Comanche kwana, "smell, odor") (c.
Quanah Parker (Comanche kwana, "smell, odor") (c.
Quanah Parker's was the last tribe of the Staked Plains or Llano Estacado to come to the reservation.
Portales, New Mexico
2 linksCity in and the county seat of Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States.
City in and the county seat of Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States.
The surrounding area of eastern New Mexico is part of what came to be known in the colonial period during Spanish rule as the "Llano Estacado", an arid and treeless plateau bounded on the north and west by the Caprock Escarpment stretching south from the Canadian River and east along the Pecos River.
Big Spring, Texas
0 linksCity in and the county seat of Howard County, Texas, United States, at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 87 and Interstate 20.
City in and the county seat of Howard County, Texas, United States, at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 87 and Interstate 20.
Long used by regional inhabitants, both permanent and nomadic, with a large number of locally collected artifacts testifying to its heavy occupation, the spring sat astride the several branches of the later-developed Comanche War Trail as they converged on this important water hole from beyond Texas, coming south across the Northern Plains and the Llano Estacado.