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Pecos , city (1990 pop. 12,069), seat of Reeves co., W Tex., on the Pecos River; inc. 1903. It is a railroad and highway junction and the market for an extensive ranch and irrigated farm area; water is supplied by the Red Bluff Dam on the Pecos. It is also a sand and gravel and gas and oil center. There are cattle feed lots. The annual rodeo, held there since 1883, was the world's first.

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Pecos, USA A river and two cities lying on it in New Mexico and Texas. All are named after the Pecos people whose name means ‘shepherd’ from the Latin pecus ‘flock’. They had been taught animal husbandry by the Spanish.

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