Corpus Christi Bay

Corpus Christi Bay is a broad estuary on the Texas coast, sheltered from the Gulf of Mexico by Mustang Island. The Nueces River reaches it through Nueces Bay, while Oso Creek enters through Oso Bay. Karankawa communities lived on these shores before European colonisation. In 1746 Joaquín de Orobio y Basterra named the bay for Saint Michael, but by 1766 Diego Ortiz Parrilla recorded it under the name Corpus Christi.