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. Additionally numerous private and public hospitals operate in Harris County including institutions in Texas Medical Center and throughout the county for example the Harris County Psychiatric Center, The surrender of Granada in 1492 the last Moorish sultan of Granada Muhammad XII before Ferdinand and Isabella, Contents Harris County ESD #20 Fire Northwest FD 1% .10.

The Houston Airport System a branch of the municipal government oversees the operation of three major public airports in the city Two of these airports George Bush Intercontinental Airport and William P Hobby Airport offer commercial aviation service to a variety of domestic and international destinations and served 55 million passengers in 2016 the third Ellington Airport is home to the Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base the Federal Aviation Administration and the state of Texas selected the Houston Airport System as "Airport of the Year" in 2005 largely due to the implementation of a $3.1 billion airport improvement program for both major airports in Houston, Astrodome Indoor City Park In 1534 the explorer French Jacques Cartier described and mapped the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River! Although Christopher Columbus was credited with the discovery of the Americas by Europeans the ships in his four voyages never reached the Gulf of Mexico Instead Columbus sailed into the Caribbean around Cuba and Hispaniola the first European exploration of the Gulf of Mexico was by Amerigo Vespucci in 1497 He followed the coastal land mass of Central America before returning to the Atlantic Ocean via the Straits of Florida between Florida and Cuba in his letters Vespucci described this trip and once Juan de la Cosa returned to Spain a famous world map depicting Cuba as an island was produced. . ; . Goose Creek CISD As of the 2015 Texas Population Estimate Program the population of the county was 4,530,268 non-Hispanic whites 1,323,437 (29.2%) Black Americans 817,096 (18.0%) Other non-Hispanic 395,206 (8.7%) Hispanics and Latinos (of any race) 1,994,529 (44.0%), The Spanish introduced European livestock including cattle horses and mules to Texas as early as the 1690s. These herds grazed heavily on the native grasses allowing mesquite which was native to the lower Texas coast to spread inland Spanish farmers also introduced tilling and irrigation to the land further changing the landscape.