Tamaulipas

Capital

Ciudad Victoria

surface

80,175 km² (rank 7 )

population

3,268,554 (Rank 13 )

Population density

40.8 inhabitants per km²
(2010 census)

governor

Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca ( PAN )
(2016–2022)

Federal MPs

PES = 4
PAN = 2
MC = 1
Morena = 1
PT = 1
(9 federal constituencies)

Senators

Morena = 2
PAN = 1

ISO 3166-2

MX-TAM

Postal abbreviation

Tamps.

Website

www.tamaulipas.gob.mx

Tamaulipas [ tamau̯ˈlipas ], officially Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( Spanish Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas ), (derived from Ta ma ho'lipam - "where Lipan pray") is a federal state in northeast Mexico south of the mouth of the Rio Grande in the Gulf of Mexico . It has approx. 3.3 million inhabitants (2010) on 80,175 km². The capital is Ciudad Victoria .

Due to the long border with Texas , border traffic is of particular importance, in the border towns of Nuevo Laredo , Reynosa and Matamoros there are also many maquiladoras ( industrial companies outsourced from the USA ). The port city of Tampico is also economically important further south.

The state of Tamaulipas is divided into 43 Municipios .

history

Tamaulipas is part of the historical settlement area of the Coahuiltec peoples and the Lipan .

In 1774 the area was organized as a political entity and was originally called Nuevo Santander . The northern border was originally on the Nueces River in what is now Texas , until the Rio Grande was defined as the northern border of Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo . This also explains the curious borderline in the northwest.

Around 2010, Tamaulipas came into international media interest several times in connection with the drug war in Mexico , for example in the course of the murder of Rodolfo Torre Cantús and the San Fernando massacre .

Population development

year	population
1950	718.167
1960	1,024,182
1970	1,456,858
1980	1,924,484
1990	2,249,581
1995	2,527,328
2000	2,753,222
2005	3,024,238
2010	3,268,554
2015	3,441,698

Biggest cities

city	Population 2000 (census)	Population 2010 (census)
Reynosa	403.718	589.466
Heroica Matamoros	376.279	449.815
Nuevo Laredo	308,828	373.725
Ciudad Victoria	249.029	305.155
Tampico	295,442	297.284
Ciudad Madero	182,325	197.216
Miramar	58.104	118,614
Ciudad Río Bravo	80.140	95,647
Ciudad Mante	80,533	84,787
Altamira	41,713	59,536
Valle Hermoso	43,018	48,918
San Fernando	27.053	29,665
Ciudad Miguel Inglés	18,368	19,997

Web links

Commons : Tamaulipas - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Tamaulipas - travel guide

State homepage (Spanish)

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