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San Antonio was named for the Portuguese Saint Anthony of Padua , whose feast day is on June thirtieth when a Spanish expedition stopped in the area in sixteen ninety-one. The city has a strong military presence, it is home to Fort Sam Houston, Lackland Air Force Base, Randolph Air Force Base, and Brooks City-Base, with Camp Bullis and Camp Stanley right outside the city. San Antonio is home to the South Texas Medical Center , the largest and only medical research and care provider in the South Texas region. Famous for its River Walk, the Alamo, Tejano culture, and home to the Sea World San Antonio and Six Flags Fiesta Texas theme parks, the city is visited by twenty million tourists per year, many of them attracted by San Antonio 's reputation as an excellent shopping destination. San Antonio is also home to the first museum of modern art in Texas - the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum , as well as one of the most successful National Basketball Association teams in league history, the San Antonio Spurs. American Indians originally lived along the San Antonio River in the San Pedro Springs area, calling the vicinity Yanaguana, meaning "refreshing waters." In sixteen ninety-one, a group of Spanish explorers and missionaries came upon the river on June thirtieth, the feast day of St. Anthony, hence naming the river after " San Antonio ." The actual founding of the city took place in seventeen eighteen by Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares, upon establishing Mission San Antonio de Valero. Hence via the efforts of Spanish soldiers and Canary Islanders, San Antonio de Béxar soon transformed into an early Spanish settlement in the Americas . The Battle of the Alamo took place nearby in eighteen thirty-six, and eventually the town would grow to encompass the embattled mission. This was where one hundred eighty-nine defenders held the old mission against some four thousand Mexican troops led by Antonio López de Santa Anna for thirteen days. The defenders were all killed. The cry "Remember the Alamo" became the rallying point of the Texas Revolution against Mexico . Like many municipalities in the American Southwest, San Antonio experiences a steady population growth. The city's population has nearly doubled in thirty-five years, from just over six hundred fifty thousand in the nineteen seventy census to an estimated one point two million in two thousand five.
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