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Tourist attractions in the Houston area include Space Center Houston and the original La Casida and Ninfa's Previous attractions included tours of the Houston Astrodome and Gilley's the Houston Bay Area and Galveston also have many other tourist attractions including a Schlitterbahn Water Park Kemah Boardwalk Moody Gardens beaches fishing pleasure boats and many local seafood restaurants the Houston Museum District Houston Theater District in Downtown and the Galleria are also heavily visited tourist attractions.[citation needed]. Houston Texas Business Directory 4.4 County government. . 1970 11,196,730 16.9% The University of Houston located in the Third Ward is a tier-one public research university and the third-largest institution of higher education in Texas, Portuguese Empire Texas's second-largest air facility is Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) it served as the largest hub for the former Continental Airlines which was based in Houston; it serves as the largest hub for United Airlines the world's third-largest airline by passenger-miles flown. IAH offers service to the most Mexican destinations of any U.S airport the next five largest airports in the state all serve over 3 million passengers annually; they include Austin-Bergstrom International Airport William P Hobby Airport San Antonio International Airport Dallas Love Field and El Paso International Airport the smallest airport in the state to be designated an international airport is Del Rio International Airport. Houston Texas Business Directory Recently developed tree-ring evidence shows that the illness which reduced the population in Aztec Mexico was aided by a great drought in the 16th century and which continued through the arrival of the Spanish conquest. This has added to the body of epidemiological evidence indicating that cocoliztli epidemics (Nahuatl name for viral haemorrhagic fever) were indigenous fevers transmitted by rodents and aggravated by the drought the cocoliztli epidemic from 1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 to 15 million people or up to 80% of the native population the cocoliztli epidemic from 1576 to 1578 killed an estimated additional 2 to 2.5 million people or about 50% of the remainder. Other Christian 1, Houston generally receives ample rainfall averaging about 49.8 in (1,260 mm) annually based on records between 1981 and 2010 Many parts of the city have a high risk of localized flooding due to flat topography ubiquitous low-permeability clay-silt prairie soils and inadequate infrastructure. During the mid-2010s Greater Houston experienced consecutive major flood events in 2015 ("Memorial Day") 2016 ("Tax Day") and 2017 (Hurricane Harvey). Overall there have been more casualties and property loss from floods in Houston than in any other locality in the United States the majority of rainfall occurs between April and October (the wet season of Southeast Texas) when the moisture from the Gulf of Mexico evaporates extensively over the city, Flags of the six nations that have had sovereignty over some or all of the current territory of Texas. ; Obesity causes several chronic diseases including heart disease and diabetes the three leading causes of death in Texas - heart disease stroke and cancer - are all linked to obesity. Additionally obesity can cause type 2 diabetes arteriosclerosis and hypertension in 2010 Texas saw 1,261,654 cases of heart disease and is predicted to see 5,688,482 cases in 2030 in 2010 Texas saw 1,962,059 cases of diabetes and is predicted to see 2,851,697 cases in 2030 in 2010 Texas saw 4,300,252 cases of hypertension and is predicted to see 5,689,509 cases in 2030 in 2010 Texas saw 328,379 cases of obesity-related cancer and is predicted to see 810,806 cases in 2030.

Contents The State of Texas concluded that since 2000 the Manchester neighborhood in eastern Houston had the highest annual averages of 1,3-butadiene of any area in Texas. Houston's air quality has often been compared to Los Angeles and Beijing. In 2011 according to the nonprofit Children at Risk one-third of students at public high schools in Harris County do not graduate, Main article: Transportation in Texas Terminal E used exclusively by United Airlines at George Bush Intercontinental Airport.