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unusual facts about Nuevo Progreso, Río Bravo, Tamaulipas


Progreso Lakes, Texas

In addition, it shares the U.S.-Mexico border with the city of Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas.


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.

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.

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.

Ceratozamia kuesteriana

It is restricted to steep slopes in pine-oak dominated cloud forests between Gómez Farías and Tula in southern Tamaulipas.

Charles Stillman

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

Comecrudo language

In 1886, Albert Gatschet recorded vocabulary, sentences, and a text from the descendants (who were not fluent) of the last Comecrudo speakers near Camargo, Tamaulipas, at Las Prietas (Swanton 1940: 55–118).

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.

Disappearance of Carlos Ornelas Puga

Prior to his kidnapping in November 2013, he aided victims of the Mexican Drug War in Tamaulipas, provided seminars for teenagers, and helped conduct the missions program of the diocese.

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 Chorrito

El Chorrito is a pilgrimage center located in the municipality of Hidalgo, Tamaulipas.

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.

Escuis

Escuis is a range of flavor soft drinks produced since 1912 in Tampico, Tamaulipas by Grupo Tampico, one of the first Coca-Cola bottling groups in Mexico.

Estudiantes Tecnológico de Nuevo Laredo

Estudiantes Tecnológico de Nuevo Laredo is a football (soccer) club from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Eugenio Siller

Santiago Siller Rodríguez (born on April 5, 1981 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico) is a Mexican actor, singer, and model who is best known for starring in popular novelas Rebelde, Código Postal, Al Diablo con los Guapos, Mi Pecado, Aurora and Una Maid en Manhattan.

Giuseppe Avezzana

Wherever there was a chance to fight for liberty, Avezzana was at hand, and hardly was he fairly established on American soil when he found himself called upon to defend the state of Tamaulipas against his old enemies the Spaniards, who invaded the territory under General Barradas in June 1827.

Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa

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

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 Enrique Rejón Aguilar

In 1997, he was assigned to the Mexico’s Federal Attorney General's Office (PGR) in the cities of Reynosa and Miguel Alemán in Tamaulipas.

Jesús Santa Cruz

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

Joint Operation Nuevo León-Tamaulipas

February 12, – In Méndez, Tamaulipas, Marines raided the ranch of "El Culebreño".

José Núñez de Cáceres

He and his family went to Mexico, where he first settled in the city of San Luis Potosi and then in Ciudad Victoria, capital of Tamaulipas.

Julio Gómez González

Julio Enrique Gómez González (born August 13, 1994 in Tampico, Tamaulipas) is a Mexican footballer who plays for C.D. Guadalajara on loan from Pachuca, in the Liga Bancomer MX.

Kab 101

The next day Lifeboat #2 reached the shore west of Nuevo Progreso upside down, with 12 survivors on top, and one survivor and four bodies inside.

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.

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.

Río Bravo, Tamaulipas

The municipality stretches southward into less densely populated territory and is slowly becoming a large and popular industrial center conveniently located right next to the booming "Maquiladora" centers in Reynosa and Matamoros.

Valor por Tamaulipas

In April 2013, Proceso magazine received information from supposed informants from the Office of the General Prosecutor in Tamaulipas who indicated that the state governor Egidio Torre Cantú wanted to close the page by discrediting it with false reports.

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).

XETAM

640 XETAM-AM Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, known as "La Poderosa"

XHTAM

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

XHTAM-FM 96.1 Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, a simulcast of XETAM-AM 640

Zacatón

Zacatón (El Zacatón sinkhole) is a thermal water filled sinkhole belonging to the Zacatón system - a group of unusual karst features located in Aldama Municipality in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.


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