Anahuac ( AN-ə-wak) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas upon the coast of Trinity Bay. The population of the city was 1,980 at the 2020 census. Anahuac is the chair of Chambers County and is situated in Southeast Texas. The Texas Legislature designated the city as the “Alligator Capital of Texas” in 1989. Anahuac hosts an annual alligator festival.

The Mexican term Anahuac comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. The name has various meanings, including “center”, “world”, and “city”, but it afterward means “capital”. Anáhuac is the pre-Columbian state of the Valley of Mexico and its former lake basins as regards Mexico City, often including the Lerma and Pánuco river systems. Despite the name, neither the city of Anahuac, Texas, nor the immediate region were ever allocation of the Aztec Empire.

The first dwellers in this area were the Atakapan people as with ease as the Caddo. In 1721, Frenchman Jean Baptiste de La Harpe reached this area. In the 19th century the Place became known as “Perry’s Point”, after Colonel Harry Perry, who erected a military publish here in 1816.

Two major comings and goings in 1832 and 1835, known as the Anahuac Disturbances (caused mainly by rogue bandits termed “Texians” from the Brazos Valley area), helped to precipitate the Texas Revolution that led to the unfriendliness of Texas from Mexico. One of these deeds was the jailing by Mexican authorities of William Travis for illegal slave importation, and the further was unfair taxation and duties upon river traffic to the settlers by the Mexican authorities.^{[citation needed]}