Big bend country!!
The best region!!!!!!!!
Cool Facts
West Texas has wide-open spaces, desert and mountains. The only mountains in Texas are found here. You can go horse back riding. There are animals that live in the desert like the Peregrine falcon and the roadrunner.
Coyote
The coyote is a nocturnal animal that howls at night. About the size of a small German shepherd dog, it is usually gray or buff in color, with yellow eyes, erect ears and a bushy, black-tipped tail.
Mountain lion
The mountain lion makes it home in the wide-open spaces of this sparsely populated area. Mountain lions are slender and tawny brown in color with a smallish head. The mountain lion is usually 3-4 feet in length with a tail almost as long as its body! Mountain lions live alone and eat meat, such as deer, wild hogs, rabbits, and rodents. They are found throughout the Big Bend Region. Mountain lions are also called cougars, pumas, and panthers.
Tarantulas
Tarantulas are hairy spiders and usually found in warm climates. Some tarantulas have lived 20 years. Although they look scary, a bite is rare and not harmful to humans. They are gray to dark brown in color and live under rocks or in burrows abandoned by other animals. Tarantulas are most active late in the day and evening when it is cooler, and mostly eat insects. Sometimes after mating, the female eats the male. An interesting fact is that tarantulas have eight eyes all grouped together! One pair of eyes is in the middle and three are on each side of its face!
History in the Big Bend Country
Painted artwork is on canyon and cave walls created by ancient peoples of this region. Most of this rock art is found at Hueco Tanks and Seminole Canyon State Historical Parks. For thousands of years, different cultures of native peoples lived in the caves and rock shelters along the Pecos and Devils rivers. The rock art or pictographs show geometric shapes, animals, and human-like figures.
Information provided by Aidan, Clark and Nathan