Tamaulipas

STATE OF TAMAULIPAS Other Mexican States Capital Ciudad Victoria Other major cities Tampico Area 79,384 km² Ranked 7th Population (2000 census) 2,747,110 Ranked 13th Governor (1999-2005) Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba (PRI) Federal Deputies (8) PRI = 6 PAN = 2 Federal Senators PRI = 2 PAN = 1 ISO 3166-2 Postal abbr. MX-TAM Tamps.

Tamaulipas is a state in the northeast of Mexico.

Tamaulipas borders on the Mexican states of Veracruz to the south, San Luis Potosí to the southwest, and Nuevo León to the west. To the east Tamaulipas fronts the Gulf of Mexico; to the north Tamaulipas borders Texas, USA. According to the 2000 census, Tamaulipas had a population of some 2,750,000 people.

The capital of Tamaulipas is Ciudad Victoria. Also in Tamaulipas are the cities of Ciudad Madero, Matamoros, Miramar, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Río Bravo, and Tampico.

The state is subdivided into 43 municipalities.

History

The first permanent Spanish settlement in the area was Tampico in 1554. What is now Tamaulipas was first incorporated as a separate province of New Spain in 1746 with the name Nuevo Santander.

External links

• Tamaulipas state government (in Spanish)
• University of Tamaulipas