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unusual facts about Matamoros, Coahuila


Battle of Lipantitlán

The injured Mexican troops were allowed to seek medical treatment in San Patricio, and the remaining Mexican soldiers retreated to Matamoros.


2007 in Mexico

January 11 – The government of the state of Coahuila approves a Civil Solidarity Pact ("Pacto Civil de Solidaridad") that permits same sex civil unions statewide.

Anarchism in Mexico

In 1824, the utopian socialist Robert Owen unsuccessfully tried to acquire a district of fifty leagues to develop a colony in the Mexican provinces of Coahuila and Texas along the same principles set forth in New Harmony.

Antonio Juan Marcos Villarreal

His family is one of most important in the textile industry of Torreón, Coahuila.

Autonomous University of Tamaulipas

Throughout the larger cities of Reynosa, Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, and Tampico and smaller cities of Ciudad Mante and Valle Hermoso are UAT campuses that offer undergraduate studies.

Bagdad, Tamaulipas

Moreover, this town is also known as the Port of Bagdad or the Port of Matamoros, since it is inside the municipality of Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

Banquete, Texas

Banquete was named for a four-day feast honoring the completion of a road linking San Patricio, Texas with Matamoros in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

Battle of La Ebonal

With information collected by Mayor Stephen Powers, District Judge Edmund J. Davis, and the filibuster José María Jesús Carbajal in Matamoros, Heintzelman concluded that Cortina probably had no more than 300 to 350 men, only 100 of whom were mounted.

Black Seminole Scouts

Not long after the Seminoles were removed to the Indian Territory, the Black Seminoles, as they became, went to Coahuila, Mexico, to escape enslavement.

Charles Stillman

Yturria being born in Matamoros could register boats under Mexico allowing them to fly the Mexican flag.

Chicago Metallic Corporation

In 2001, Eurostone ceiling panel production facilities were acquired in Matamoros, Mexico, to strengthen our ability to meet the needs for green building and healthy ceilings.

Cynthia de la Vega

A native of Nuevo León, Cynthia de la Vega was chosen to represent her country in the 61st Miss World pageant in 2011 during the 2010 edition of Nuestra Belleza México, held September 25, 2010 in Saltillo, Coahuila.

División Minúscula

División Minúscula (Spanish for "Minuscule Division") is a Mexican rock band from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, which is becoming increasingly popular in Mexico and gradually making an impact on the U.S. Latin alternative scene.

The four members of División Minúscula, Javier Blake (singer-guitarist), Ricci Pérez (guitarist), Kiko Blake (drummer) and Alejandro Luque (bassist), formed the band in late 90s, in the town of Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

Francisco Martín Borque

Francisco Martin Borque was a Mexican entrepreneur, he was born in Soria, Spain in August 9, 1917 and died in December 24, 1998 in Torreon, Coahuila, their family arrived Veracruz port in October 30, 1926, then moved to Torreon with their uncle Pascual Borque, in 1930's decade toured Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Sonora sierras, was married with Ana María Bringas at February 15, 1949, in 1968 opened their first hypermarket under the name of Soriana.

Galeana, Nuevo León

Galeana shares borders with the states of Coahuila and San Luis Potosí to the west; with the municipalities of Aramberri and Doctor Arroyo to the south; Rayones to the north; and with Linares, Montemorelos, Rayones and Iturbide to the east.

Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa

He was captured on April 30, 2009 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas along with his wife and his bodyguard, Miguel Angel Reyes Grajales.

Gringo Honeymoon

The title track is thought to be about the singer and a date crossing the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park, Texas, to visit the small Mexican town of Boquillas del Carmen located in the state of Coahuila.

Hiromi Hayakawa

She is the daughter of Alfonso Javier Hayakawa, who is of Japanese descent and a native of Torreón, Coahuila, and Lourdes Elsa Salas, from the city of Chihuahua.

Ignacio Elizondo

Francisco Ignacio Elizondo Villarreal, (Salinas Valley, New Kingdom of León, New Spain, March 9, 1766 - San Marcos, Texas, New Spain, September 2, 1813), was a New Leonese royalist general, mostly known for his victorious plot to seek to capture important insurgency precursors of the Mexican War of Independence such as Miguel Hidalgo, Ignacio Allende, and Juan Aldama in Baján, Coahuila in 1811.

Jesús de Cárdenas

The Republic of Rio Grande claimed as its territory the areas of Tamaulipas and Coahuila to the north until the Nueces river and Medina respectively, and all the states of Zacatecas, Durango, Chihuahua and Nuevo México, among those present were appointed official representatives of the Republic of the Rio Grande.

Juan Cortina

When he was 3, his family moved to the Rio Grande Valley, as his mother had inherited vast tracts of land in the area surrounding Matamoros and Brownsville.

Manuel Matamoros

For instance there is a card for Rev. William Harris Rule, a Methodist minister who had tried unsuccessfully to introduce Protestantism into Spain twenty years before Matamoros.

María de los Ángeles Errisúriz

María de los Ángeles Errisúriz Alarcón (born in Allende, Coahuila, México; January 18, 1966) is a Mexican writer, teacher and politician.

She was co-author of the Educative Program of Coahuila 2001–2005 and president of education working meeting at the 22nd Border Governors Conference celebrated August 10, 2004.

Mariano Matamoros

One night Matamoros broke the siege and could join Miguel Bravo in Aculco.

Matamoros Expedition

The Matamoros Expedition was a planned 1836 invasion of the Mexican port town of Matamoros by rebellious Texians.

Matamoros Querido

Matamoros Querido is the first album by Rigo Tovar.

Monster of Aramberri

As the Museum of Natural History of Karlsruhe could not accept any more remains because it was at its maximum capacity, new remains were sent to the Museo del Desierto in Saltillo, Coahuila, also in Mexico, where the specialist in marine reptiles, Dra.

Nuestra Belleza Coahuila 2010

Nuestra Belleza Coahuila 2010, was held at the Teatro Nazas in Torreón, Coahuila on July 30, 2010.

Nuestra Belleza Coahuila 2011

Nuestra Belleza Coahuila 2011, was held at the Teatro Nazas in Torreón, Coahuila on July 15, 2011.

Óscar Malherbe de León

The drugs were supplied by the Rodriguez Orihuela brothers of the Cali Cartel and arrived in clandestine runaways in San Fernando and Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

Real Saltillo Soccer

The club was founded on July 2008 with a base mainly of players from Saltillo and cities around Coahuila.

Rigo Tovar

In 1971, Tovar released his first album entitled Matamoros Querido which garnered two hits, "Matamoros Querido" and "Lamento De Amor".

Robert Runyon

In 1913, Runyon began recording the events of the Mexican Revolution, starting with the takeover of the Matamoros garrison by the Constitutional Army under General Lucio Blanco on June 3.

Rudolfo Infante and Anna Villeda

Rudolfo or Rodolfo Infante Jímenez (born 1963, San Benito, Texas, United States) and Anna or Ana María Ruíz Villeda (born 1971, San Luis Potosí, Mexico) are a Mexican serial killers pair, active during 1991, in Matamoros, Mexico.

Saltillo Engine

Saltillo Engine is a Chrysler engine plant in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico.

San Patricio, Texas

The survivors were taken captured and imprisoned at Matamoros.

Serape

On the other hand, the traditional serape as made in the Mexican state of Coahuila in north-eastern Mexico near the city of Saltillo often consists of a dark base color with bands of yellow, orange, red, blue, green, purple or other bright colors.

Tegeticula rostratella

It is found in the Big Bend region of the United States, south to the Mapimi region in southern Coahuila in Mexico.

Teodoro de Croix

The Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas del Norte (Commandancy General of the Internal Provinces of the North) was established in New Spain in 1776, incorporating Nueva Vizcay, Santa Fe de Nuevo México, Nuevo León, Coahuila, Sonora y Sinaloa, Las Californias and Texas.

Texan schooner Brutus

The ships, running low on water, started back to Galveston, but not before Brutus captured Rafaelita on 17 August and blockaded Matamoros.

Texan schooner Invincible

Pocket had been en route from Matamoros to Santa Anna's army in Texas with a contraband cargo of flour, rice, lard, biscuit, and 300 kegs of powder.

XHRCG-TV

XHRCG-TV 7 Siete Saltillo is a pair of broadcast stations serving the Mexican state of Coahuila.

XHTAM

XHTAM-TV 17 Reynosa-Matamoros, Tamaulipas, an affiliate of Canal de las Estrellas network


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