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Concho River

Field	Value
name	Concho River
name_other	Río Concho
image	San Angelo September 2019 66 (Concho River).jpg
image_size	250
image_caption	The Concho River in San Angelo, Texas
map	Concho Watershed.png
map_size	250
map_caption	Map of the Concho River and associated watershed
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	United States
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	Texas
subdivision_type3	Counties
subdivision_name3	Concho and Tom Green
mouth_coordinates
mouth_elevation	1480 ft

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the river in Texas, a tributary of the Colorado River

The Concho River is a river in the U.S. state of Texas. Concho is Spanish for "shell"; the river was so named due to its abundance of freshwater mussels, such as the Tampico pearly mussel (Cyrtonaias tampicoensis).

Geography

The Concho River has three primary feeds: the North, Middle, and South Concho Rivers. The North Concho River is the longest fork, starting in Howard County and traveling southeast for 88 mi until merging with the South and Middle forks near Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas. The combined branches of the river flow east about 58 mi until it eventually empties into the Colorado River within the waters of the O.H. Ivie Lake about 12 mi east of Paint Rock, Texas.

History

Hernando de Ugarte y la Concha, Governor of New Mexico, dispatched an expedition from Santa Fe in 1650 led by Captain Diego del Castillo, to explore what is now north central Texas. The expedition reached the territory of the Tejas Indians, and reported finding pearls on the Concho River. The Diego de Guadalajara expedition was launched in 1654 to follow up on Castillo's findings.{{cite web |ref= |url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fca89 The Spanish explored the river for the gem-quality purple to pink pearls produced by that species. The mussels were systematically harvested for only a short time because they soon realized that the yield of pearls was too low for their harvest to be economically viable.

References

{{GNIS. 1373173
{{Handbook of Texas. Julia Cauble Smith
''Texas Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 4th ed., 2001, p. 55 {{ISBN. 0899333206
Howells, Robert G.. (1996). "The Tampico Pearlymussel (''Cyrtonaias tampicoensis'') Shades of the Old West". Conchologists of America.

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