CORPUS CHRISTI, a city in south-eastern Texas, U.S.A., on Corpus Christi bay, at the mouth of the Nueces river; a port of entry and the county seat of Nueces county. It is the southern terminus of Federal highway 181; is served by the Missouri Pacific, the Southern Pacific, and the Texas-Mexican railways; and has a deep-water channel to the Gulf of Mexico at Aransas Pass. The population was 10,522 in 1920, and was 27,741 in 1930 by the Federal census. The climate is dry and equable, and the city is developing rapidly as a tourist resort. A motor high way runs from here along the gulf for 15om. to the southern tip of the State. Large crops of cotton are grown in the county 103,621 bales in 1926. The city ships also oysters, shrimps, fish and vegetables, and is the headquarters of several gas and oil companies. The commerce of the port, opened in Sept. 1926, amounted in 1927 to 991,654 tons, valued at There was a small Spanish settlement here at an early date, and from this base Gen. Zachary Taylor made his forward movement to the Rio Grande in 1846. After the Mexican War an American town grew up, which was chartered as a city in 1876.