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Chupaderas Creek is a waterway that starts east of Martinez, Texas and runs for ten miles to its mouth on Calaveras Creek.
In the mid-19th century, William Budd Jaques (1799–1870), friend of Stephen F. Austin, acquired a large tract of land along Chupaderas Creek and developed the property into one of the most significant hog ranching operations east of San Antonio during that period [1] . However, the creek's lower reaches became inundated with the completion of Calaveras Lake Dam in 1969 [2] , and the former site of Jaques Rancho is now submerged beneath Calaveras Lake.
Chupaderas means pacifiers in Spanish.
