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Bandera

city in and county seat of Bandera County, Texas, United States

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Country: United States
State: Texas
County: Bandera
Mayor: Denise Griffin
Total: 1.16 sq mi (3.00 km )
Land: 1.16 sq mi (3.00 km )
Water: 0.0039 sq mi (0.01 km )
Elevation: 1,247 ft (380 m)
Density: 778.3/sq mi (300.49/km )
Time zone: UTC−6 ( Central (CST) )
Summer dst: UTC−5 (CDT)
Fips code: 48-05528
Website: www .banderatx .gov

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Bandera (Spanish: "flag", /bænˈdɛrə/ ban-DERR-ə) is a city in Bandera County, Texas, United States. It was founded by Polish Catholic settlers from Silesia in the 1850s.The county seat, it lies in the Texas Hill Country, a part of the Edwards Plateau located at the crossroads of the central, southern, and western parts of the state, Its population was 829 at the 2020 census.

Bandera calls itself the "Cowboy Capital of the World", a legacy dating to its days as a staging area for what is today known as Great Western Cattle Trail for the last cattle drives of the 1800s.