Southeast's largest city, the country's largest oil industry center and the third largest port Located in the southeast Texas coast, through the 80 km-long canal and the Gulf linked to the sea. The urban area of 1,440 square kilometers and a population 1.63 million (1990); Large urban counties, including Harris, 6 and the nearby small towns, covering 16,278 square kilometers.
Located forthright coastal plains, many rivers and lakes, with an average altitude of only 15 meters. Warm climate. n January the average temperature of 12.6 ° C and 28.9 ° C in August, 1150 mm annual precipitation, the summer often turn by the hurricane. Founded in 1836. Early distribution for the agricultural and livestock G with the construction of the railway, particularly in the early 20th century near oil and gas resources on the development and the alignment of the canal, city Jueqi quickly to the oil industry-based industrial system gradually formed, population growth, growth in the past 20 years was especially fast.
Derrick around the city of skyscrapers, vertical and horizontal pipeline, oil refining and petrochemical industry developed, refining capacity and ethylene, synthetic rubber and other major petrochemical products production tops in the first. It is a center east Beaumont, Corpus Christi west, is the nation's largest oil industrial zone. Crude oil and oil products through pipelines to California, the Northeast and the Great Lakes industrial area. Major American oil company headquarters or branch offices are located in the city. Other major industrial sectors of the oil industry and the supporting steel, machinery, steel and oil tanker equipment manufacturing; In addition, chemical, textile, rice milling and meat processing. Factories and enterprises are mainly distributed in Chengdong on both sides of the canal, here is the nation's largest oil refining center, in addition to many shipyards and granary.
Houston of the artificial harbor. Ocean river width 90 meters, 11 meters deep, about 5,000 sea from access. The country's largest oil and wheat output port. The cargo throughput, second only to the New Orleans and New York, but mainly belong to their coastal trade. Southwest of the United States land transport center, five railway lines and a number of roads leading to radial lines were all over the highway around the city, Zhou. The city has two airports, of which 27 km north of downtown Houston Intercontinental Airport, for the Latin American and European countries to the air gateway.
Houston again famous aerospace and medical research. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's largest space research center is located 35 kilometers southeast of the city in the Oct. Lake, an area of six hectares calendar, the Center to the late President Lyndon. Johnson's name. The famous "Apollo" moon, "Space Lab" and "Columbia" space shuttle launch, all this. The magnitude of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the city, with 26 medical institutions, hospitals and research institutions, the world's first heart transplant operation carried out in this.
There are more than 230 domestic banks, foreign banks more than 50. The prosperous commercial city, wholesale sales in the South of the UN-Habitat City in the first place. The construction industry booming, high-rise buildings, road construction soon, City continues to expand. Culture, education, many entertainment facilities, University of Houston, 29 universities, the renowned Cleveland Theater.
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