List of the ten longest Texas rivers

This is a list of the ten longest Texas rivers. Of the ten streams, all empty into the Gulf of Mexico. Four of the rivers are tributaries: the Pecos flows into the Rio Grande, the Red into the Mississippi River, and the Sabine and Neches flow into Sabine Lake, which is connected to the Gulf of Mexico by the Sabine Pass. The Canadian is a tributary of a tributary. It flows into the Arkansas River, which is itself a tributary of the Mississippi.

#Rio Grande – convert|1896|mi|km, 1,250 miles of which are in Texas — although technically on the border between Texas and Mexico
#Red River – convert|1360|mi|km of which 680 are in Texas
#Brazos River – convert|1280|mi|km of which convert|840|mi|km are in Texas, making it the longest section of river in Texas
#Pecos River – convert|926|mi|km most of which is in New Mexico
#Colorado River – convert|1862|mi|km almost entirely in Texas of which convert|600|mi|km are not dry
#Canadian River – convert|760|mi|km of which convert|200|mi|km are in Texas
#Trinity River – convert|710|mi|km entirely in Texas
#Sabine River – convert|555|mi|km of which convert|360|mi|km are in Texas
#Neches River – convert|416|mi|km entirely in Texas
#Nueces River – convert|315|mi|km entirely in Texas

The Trinity River is the longest river with its entire drainage basin in Texas. The Colorado is the longest river with both its source based on river name and its mouth in the state. The actual longest source of the Colorado is in New Mexico.

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