Palacios is also known as City By The Sea. It is in Matagorda County.
Palacios is known as the biggest shrimping port on the coast of
Texas.
There are a very large amount of Vietnamese
people, so if you go to Palacios it won't be uncommon to go somewhere and hear
people talking in Vietnamese. There is a small section of town known as the Vietnamese Village, or the Village that is home to only Catholic Viets.
Palacios'
s HS team is the Sharks, and they are
big rivals with Tidehaven HS's Tigers. Tidehaven is very close and some Palacios residents go to school there.
No Wal-Mart, H-E-B or Buc-ees. We have Super S and Alco.
1: "Hey want to go fishing later?"
2: "Sure, wanna go on down to Palacios?"
1: "Okay, but we'll need to go pick up some
bait."
3: "They have live
shrimp."
2: "Oh how I
love Palacios, TX."