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Coordinates:27°52′10″N97°05′49″W / 27.86935°N 97.09700°W /27.86935; -97.09700

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This article is about the strait. For the city, seeAransas Pass, Texas. For other uses, seeAransas (disambiguation).

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Map, taken by the Union forces, shows the position of the bar, also the Rebel batteries, each mounting 1-20 lb.Parrott gun

Aransas Pass is a navigable salt water channel connecting theGulf of Mexico withAransas Bay on theTexas Gulf coast in theUnited States. The pass separatesMustang Island to the south fromSan José Island to the north, and is protected byjetties extending into the Gulf from both islands. At the eastern end of the pass is the town ofPort Aransas, located at the far northern end of Mustang Island. At the western end of the pass, on the mainland side of Aransas Bay, is the town ofAransas Pass. A free ferry serves the two towns. The pass is located on theAransas County andNueces County line.

The secondlighthouse in Texas was built at Aransas Pass by the United States government to protect shipping in Aransas Bay.Aransas Pass was originally pictured as becoming a major Texas hub of commerce and travel with rail links to the harbor and harbor links by ships toMexico,New York and other destinations. Today, Aransas Pass is the major pass for all oceangoing traffic into and out of the port ofCorpus Christi.

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Aransas Pass from theHandbook of Texas Online
The New Aransas Pass Progress newspaper.

v t e Waters ofTexas
Bays and estuaries of theGulf of Mexico	Alazan Bay Aransas Bay Baffin Bay Carancahua Bay Christmas Bay Copano Bay Corpus Christi Bay Dickinson Bay East Bay East Matagorda Bay Espiritu Santo Bay Galveston Bay Guadalupe Bay Laguna Madre Lavaca Bay Matagorda Bay Nueces Bay Oso Bay Redfish Bay Sabine Lake San Antonio Bay South Bay St. Charles Bay Tres Palacios Bay Trinity Bay West Bay
Channels and canals	Acequia Madre de Valero American Canal Aransas Pass Bolivar Roads Brazos Santiago Pass Cedar Bayou Franklin Canal Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Houston Ship Channel Matagorda Ship Channel Pass Cavallo Port Mansfield Channel Riverside Canal Sabine Pass Sabine–Neches Waterway San Luis Pass
Lakes and reservoirs	Amistad Reservoir Caddo Lake Canyon Lake Cedar Creek Reservoir Choke Canyon Reservoir Falcon International Reservoir Inks Lake Lady Bird Lake Lavon Lake Lake Austin Lake Bardwell Lake Buchanan Lake Conroe Lake Corpus Christi Lake Ray Hubbard Lake Ray Roberts Lake LBJ Lake Livingston Lake Marble Falls Lake Meredith Lake Tawakoni Lake Texoma Lake Travis Lewisville Lake Richland-Chambers Reservoir Sam Rayburn Reservoir Toledo Bend Reservoir
Rivers	Angelina River Blanco River Bosque River Brazos River Buffalo Bayou Colorado River Concho River Canadian River Guadalupe River James River Lampasas River Lavaca River Leon River Little River Llano River Navidad River Neches River Nolan River Nueces River Frio River Paluxy River Pease River Pedernales River Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River Red River Rio Grande Devils River Pecos River Sabine River San Antonio River Medina River San Bernard River San Gabriel River San Jacinto River San Marcos River San Saba River Sulphur River Trinity River Wichita River White River
Wetlands	Big Cypress Bayou Cow Bayou Ottine wetlands Rincon Bayou Rio Grande Valley