Department of Medicine

The region around San Antonio
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"But isn't San Antonio flat, dry, and dusty as the way it looks in the movie where John Wayne defended the Alamo?"

Yes, flat as a pancake, at least until 20 million years ago...

Until that time, San Antonio was the ocean floor. Then the Balcones fault lifted the Balcones escarpment north of San Antonio and formed the edge of the Texas Hill Country. Remarkably, no one was injured in San Antonio during this upheaval.

For more information about the Texas Hill Country, see summaries by National Geographic and New York Times Travel Guide

Autumn color
Autumn color in the Hill Country (Friedrich Wilderness Park) 15 minutes from the Medical Center
 

Quite dry and dusty where John Wayne defended a recreated Alamo 2 hours west towards the Chihuahuan desert, but at the real San Antonio..

Rivers flow here
 
..in town..Paseo del Rio ..and out of town...Medina River

Guadalupe River kayaking
In addition to our rivers, the beach can be found a short 3 hours South East of San Antonio. Gulf seafood is fun to catch and very good to eat.
North Padre Island
Photo by former chief resident, John Galan, MD

 

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