Tamaulipas

It is divided into 43 municipalities and its capital city is Ciudad Victoria.

Tamaulipas is a state in Northeast Mexico that is divided into 43 municipalities.

Located in northeastern Mexico, it is bordered by the states of Veracruz to the southeast, San Luis Potosí to the southwest, and Nuevo León to the west.

Veracruz is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north, San Luis Potosí and Hidalgo to the west, Puebla to the southwest, Oaxaca and Chiapas to the south, and Tabasco to the southeast.

Located in northeastern Mexico, it is bordered by the states of Veracruz to the southeast, San Luis Potosí to the southwest, and Nuevo León to the west.

It is located in North-Central Mexico and is bordered by 7 other Mexican states: Nuevo León to the north; Tamaulipas to the north-east; Veracruz to the east; Hidalgo, Querétaro and Guanajuato to the south; and Zacatecas to north-west.

Located in northeastern Mexico, it is bordered by the states of Veracruz to the southeast, San Luis Potosí to the southwest, and Nuevo León to the west.

It is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north and east, San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west.

To the north, it has a 370 km stretch of the U.S.–Mexico border along the state of Texas, and to the east it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean.

Located in the South Central region, Texas shares borders with the states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the southwest, and has a coastline with the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast.

In addition to the capital city, Ciudad Victoria, the state's largest cities include Reynosa, Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, Tampico, and Mante.

Matamoros, officially known as Heroica Matamoros, is a city in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

To the north, it has a 370 km stretch of the U.S.–Mexico border along the state of Texas, and to the east it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean.

The Mexican states along the border are Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas.

Another explanation of the state name is that it is derived from Ta ma ho'lipam ("place where the Lipan prey").

Lipan Apache are Southern Athabaskan (Apachean) Native Americans whose traditional territory includes present-day Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas, prior to the 17th century.

Tamaulipas was originally populated by the Olmec people and later by Chichimec and Huastec tribes.

The Huastec or Téenek (contraction of Te' Inik, "people from here"; also known as Huaxtec, Wastek or Huastecos), are an indigenous people of Mexico, living in the La Huasteca region including the states of Hidalgo, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas concentrated along the route of the Pánuco River and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

What is now Tamaulipas was first incorporated as a separate province of New Spain in 1746 with the name Nuevo Santander.

Nuevo Santander (New Santander) was a region of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, covering the modern Mexican state of Tamaulipas and extending into modern-day southern Texas in the United States.

The territory of this time spanned from the San Antonio River to the northeast to the Gulf of Mexico, then south to the Pánuco River near Tampico and west to the Sierra Madre Mountains.

The river is approximately 510 km long and passes through or borders the states of Mexico, Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz.

The Sierra de Tamaulipas and the Sierra de San Carlos are isolated mountain ranges in eastern Tamaulipas.

The Sierra de Tamaulipas is an isolated, semi-tropical mountain range in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

The Rio Grande, known to Mexicans as the Río Bravo, represents the northern frontier shared with the United States.

The river serves as part of the natural border between the U.S. state of Texas and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas.

In the western part of the state, the Sierra Madre Oriental displays warm valleys and high sierras with peaks reaching 3280 m in the Pedragoso Sierra; 3240 m in the Borregos Sierra; 3220 m in La Gloria Sierra; 3180 m in Cerro el Nacimiento; and 3000 m above sea level in the Sierra el Pinal.

Spanning 1000 km the Sierra Madre Oriental runs from the Rio Grande on the border between Coahuila and Texas south through Nuevo León, southwest Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, and Hidalgo to northern Puebla, where it joins with the east-west running Eje Volcánico Transversal of central Mexico.

Tamaulipas, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas (Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

The Sierra de Tamaulipas and the Sierra de San Carlos are isolated mountain ranges in eastern Tamaulipas.

Sierra de San Carlos, also known as the Sierra Chiquita, is an isolated mountain range in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.

In the state there are important industrial parks such as the Oradel Industrial Center, located in the border city of Nuevo Laredo.

Oradel Industrial Center is located in the city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

The Tamaulipas State Police (Policía estatal de Tamaulipas), also known as the Tamaulipas Force (Fuerza Tamaulipas), is a state agency of law enforcement in Tamaulipas, Mexico.

There are petrochemical production plants around Altamira as well as a principal Gulf coast container port, refinery facilities in Ciudad Madero and many oil-industry support service companies in Tampico, as well as a major general and bulk cargo port.

Ciudad Madero is a coastal city, located in southeast Tamaulipas in the Gulf of Mexico, It is the seventh most populous city in the state, with a census-estimated 2015 population of 209,175 within an area of 18.0 square miles (46.6 km 2 ) the city is the third-largest in the Tampico metropolitan area, It is also an important center of oil refining in Mexico.

There are petrochemical production plants around Altamira as well as a principal Gulf coast container port, refinery facilities in Ciudad Madero and many oil-industry support service companies in Tampico, as well as a major general and bulk cargo port.

Altamira is a port city on the Gulf of Mexico and is located near the southeastern tip of the state of Tamaulipas in Mexico.

In 1840, it became a part of the short-lived Republic of the Rio Grande.

A group of notables from the states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas advocated for a rebellion seeking secession from Mexico and formation of their own federal republic with Laredo as the capital.

The Municipality of Nuevo Laredo is located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

It is divided into 43 municipalities and its capital city is Ciudad Victoria. In addition to the capital city, Ciudad Victoria, the state's largest cities include Reynosa, Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, Tampico, and Mante.

Ciudad Victoria is the capital of the Municipality of Victoria and the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

Reynosa is a municipality located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

The Tamaulipas Institute of Higher Education (Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Tamaulipas), or IEST for its acronym in Spanish, is a private university in Altamira, Tamaulipas, Mexico founded in 1974.