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Corpus Christi

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Corpus Christi, Texas/USA Founded in 1838 as a trading post, it was named after Corpus Christi Bay in 1846. The bay was given this name because Alonso de Pineda, a Spaniard, sailed into it on the feast day of Corpus Christi, the ‘Body of Christ’, in 1519.

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