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13 unusual facts about 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.

Bob Fitrakis

He visited Reynosa and Matamoros, Mexico as part of a human rights delegation to investigate conditions in the maquilladoras in 1993.

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.

Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa

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

Matamoros Expedition

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

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.

San Patricio, Texas

The survivors were taken captured and imprisoned at Matamoros.

With the approval of the General Council, Texas revolutionaries James Grant, Frank W. Johnson and Robert C. Morris collaborated on plans to lead an assault on the Mexican town of Matamoros.

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 Independence

With rumors of an imminent invasion of Texas by Mexico, Independence carried out a screening and patrol action at Matamoros, which the Texans had ordered blockaded.

Imprisoned in Matamoros, all of the prisoners eventually escaped or were released by the Mexican government.

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.


1958 Atlantic hurricane season

On June 14, a tropical depression formed about halfway between the Yucatán Peninsula and Tamaulipas.

1995 Zapatista Crisis

On February 9, 1995, in a televised special Presidential broadcast, President Ernesto Zedillo announced Subcomandante Marcos to be one Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente, born June 19, 1957 in Tampico, Tamaulipas to Spanish immigrants.

2003 Atlantic hurricane season

It continued quickly across the body of water, and made landfall in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas as a hurricane on August 17.

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.

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.

Battle of Lipantitlán

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

Benjamin McCulloch

He and his brother, Henry, subsequently took part in the failed Somervell expedition and both escaped very shortly before most of the Texans were captured at Mier, Mexico in Tamaulipas, December 25, 1842.

Bird colony

In 1978, in Tamaulipas, Mexico, researchers counted 22 breeding colonies of White-winged Doves with a collective population size of more than eight million birds.

Carolina Morán

Morán, who stands 5'10" (1.78 m) tall, competed in the national beauty pageant Nuestra Belleza Mexico, held in Tampico, Tamaulipas on September 2, 2006 and obtained the title of Miss Mexico World after placing second to Rosa María Ojeda of the state of Sinaloa.

Charles Stillman

He was involved in cotton brokerage and real estate in addition to silver mines in Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.

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.

Deportivo Neza

The club played from 1978 to 1982 in the first division before the club was sold and moved to Tamaulipas and remained Correcaminos UAT.

Donna, Texas

An international bridge across the Rio Grande is being constructed to link Donna to the city of Río Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, a city with a population of approximately 150,000.

Drymaeus serperastrus

The distribution of Drymaeus serperastrus includes the following states of Mexico: Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Tamaulipas.

Duval County, Texas

The important colonists came from Mier, Tamaulipas - and Anglos later respected their descendants as the old Mexican families.

El Diario de Nuevo Laredo

El Diario de Nuevo Laredo (The Nuevo Laredo Daily) is a Spanish language newspaper published in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Javier O. Huerta

Huerta was born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico and immigrated to the United States with his mother and younger brother, crossing the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) in 1981.

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.

Jesús Santa Cruz

Jesús Alberto Santa Cruz Mares (born March 25, 1986 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico) is a Mexican football goalkeeper.

Limonium

Limonium carolinianum (Carolina Sea-lavender; eastern North America, Newfoundland to Bermuda, Florida and Tamaulipas; syn. L. angustatum, L. nashii)

Manihot walkerae

Walker's Manihot has been collected from the Loreto caliche sand plain in Tamaulipas, where it grew alongside Asclepias prostrata, Manfreda longiflora, and Physaria thamnophila.

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.

Mariano Matamoros

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

Matamoros Querido

Matamoros Querido is the first album by Rigo Tovar.

Octaviano Tenorio

When he was fifteen years old, he and his parents joined the LDS Church while they were living in Río Bravo, Tamaulipas.

Quercus oleoides

It grows in dry forests and pastureland of lowest North America and of Central America, from Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica to Tamaulipas, Mexico.

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.

Western Gulf coastal grasslands

Rancho Nuevo beach in Tamaulipas is the only nesting site in the world for the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) while other herpetofauna of the ecoregion include Río Grande Chirping Frog (Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides) and Mexican White-lipped Frog (Leptodactylus fragilis).

XHTAM

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