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46 unusual facts about 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.

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.

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.

Bob Fitrakis

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

Ceratozamia kuesteriana

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

Charles Stillman

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

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

He arrived in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in 1828 and established himself as an entrepreneur.

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

After conducting an evening mass at Los Cinco Señores parish on 3 November 2013 in Jiménez, Tamaulipas, Ornelas Puga was reportedly kidnapped by gunmen presumably involved in organized crime.

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.

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.

Eusebio L. Elizondo Almaguer

Eusebio L. Elizondo was born in Victoria Tamaulipas, México.

Francisco de Garay

He reconnoitered by sending a small boat upriver about 25 miles, probably reaching the site of the present day city of Soto la Marina.

General Francisco Javier Mina International Airport

It handles national and international air traffic of the metropolitan area of Tampico, Ciudad Madero and Altamira.

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.

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.

Joint Operation Nuevo León-Tamaulipas

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

Los Ebanos Ferry

The Los Ebanos Ferry or El Chalán, formally known as the Los Ebanos-Diaz Ordaz Ferry, is a hand-operated cable ferry that travels across the Rio Grande between Los Ebanos, Texas and Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Tamaulipas.

Martín De León

Martín de León was born in 1765 in Burgos, Tamaulipas, Mexico to wealthy and well-connected aristocratic immigrants Bernardo and María Galván De León from Burgos, Spain.

Matamoros Expedition

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

Octaviano Tenorio

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

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.

Petroleros de Ciudad Madero

The club scored its first goal in the second round against Deportivo Toluca F.C. in the Estadio Tamaulipas and would win its first until the 5th round against Necaxa.

Progreso Lakes, Texas

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

Rio Grande City – Camargo International Bridge

The bridge is also known as "Starr-Camargo Bridge" for the county and municipio it serves and Puente Camargo (Camargo Bridge).

Rio Rico

Rio Rico, Tamaulipas, a town in Mexico along Rio Grade River which was once in the United States, before a border adjustment in the 1970s

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.

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.


Burton E. Grossman

Burton Edward Grossman (died November 12, 1999) was a Mexican-American international businessman, health and education promoter, who served as chairman and CEO of Grupo Continental, a holding company established in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in 1964, that owns and operates 46 corporations dealing with soft drinks, sugar refining, mineral water, cooling systems, plastics, an mainly bottling factories for The Coca-Cola Company in Mexico.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Juan Mejía González

In the late 1990s, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former leader of the Gulf cartel, had other similar groups besides Los Zetas established in several cities in 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.

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.

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.

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