Pecos Explained

Pecos may refer to:

Places

• Pecos River, rises near Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
• Pecos, Texas, a city in Reeves County, Texas, United States
• Pecos County, Texas, named for the Pecos River
  • Pecos Spring, a spring
• Pecos, New Mexico, a village, United States
• Pecos National Historical Park, a National Historical Park in the U.S. state of New Mexico
• Trans-Pecos, a region of Texas, United States

Ships

• USS Pecos, the name of two ships of the United States Navy
• USNS Pecos (T-AO-197), a U.S. Navy fleet replenishment oiler in service since 1989

Other uses

• Pecos Bill, a mythical American cowboy
• Pecos Classification, a division of all known Ancient Pueblo Peoples culture into chronological phases
• Pecos League, an independent professional baseball league headquartered in Houston
• Oryx/Pecos, a proprietary operating system developed by Bell Labs beginning in 1978, consisting of a kernel (Oryx) and the associated processes running on top of it (Pecos)
• PECOS (Programa Educativo de COlegios Secundarios), an Argentine computer

Pecos Smith

Character in:

• The Gun Packer, 1919 silent western
• hero of the Zane Grey novel West of the Pecos and its film adaptations:
  • West of the Pecos, 1934 film
  • West of the Pecos, 1945 film
• The Chinese Paymaster, 1967 novel

See also

• Pecos Bill (disambiguation)
• Peco (disambiguation)