About Texas A&M University Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi (/ˌkɔːrpəs ˈkrɪsti/; Ecclesiastical Latin: “Body of Christ”) is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas and the county chair and largest city of Nueces County, it also extends into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio Counties. It is 130 miles southeast of San Antonio. Its embassy boundaries encompass Nueces Bay and Corpus Christi Bay. Its zoned boundaries include small land parcels or water inlets of three against counties.

The city’s population was estimated to be 326,586 in 2019, making it the eighth-most populous city in Texas. The Corpus Christi metropolitan Place had an estimated population of 442,600. It is furthermore the hub of the six-county Corpus Christi-Kingsville Combined Statistical Area, with a 2013 estimated population of 516,793. The Port of Corpus Christi is the fifth-largest in the United States. The region is served by the Corpus Christi International Airport.

The city’s read out means body of Christ in Ecclesiastical Latin, in mention to the Christian sacrament of Holy Communion. The name was fixed to the harmony and surrounding bay by Spanish traveler Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519, as he discovered the lush semitropical bay upon the Western Christian feast hours of daylight of Corpus Christi.[citation needed] The nickname of the city is “Sparkling City by the Sea”, particularly featured in tourist literature.