Ĭabeza de Vaca may have passed through Corpus Christi in the 1500s, but the first European to study the Nueces River and Corpus Christi Bay was Joaquín de Orobio y Basterr in 1747. Spaniard Alonso Alvarez de Pineda traveled in 1519 to this bay on the day of the religious Feast of Corpus Christi, so named the semitropical bay Corpus Christi. The name was given to the settlement and surrounding bay by Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519, as he discovered the lush semitropical bay on the Western Christian feast day of Corpus Christi.Ĭorpus Christi is home to Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, one of two locations training primary student pilots and advanced multiengine pilots of the US Navy, US Marine Corps, and US Coast Guard.įor a chronological guide, see Timeline of Corpus Christi, Texas. The city's name means body of Christ in Ecclesiastical Latin, in reference to the Christian sacrament of Holy Communion. The region is served by the Corpus Christi International Airport. The Port of Corpus Christi is the fifth-largest in the United States. It is also the hub of the six-county Corpus Christi–Kingsville combined statistical area, with a 2013 estimated population of 516,793. The Corpus Christi metropolitan area had an estimated population of 442,600. The city's population was 317,863 in 2020, making it the eighth-most populous city in Texas. Its zoned boundaries include small land parcels or water inlets of three neighboring counties. Its political boundaries encompass Nueces Bay and Corpus Christi Bay. It is 130 miles (210 km) southeast of San Antonio. state of Texas and the county seat and largest city of Nueces County, it also extends into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio Counties. Corpus Christi ( / ˌ k ɔːr p ə s ˈ k r ɪ s t i/ Ecclesiastical Latin: " Body of Christ") is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S.
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