ESTADO DE 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 Cd. Victoria. Also in Tamaulipas are the cities of Altamira, Cd. Madero, Cd. Mante, Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, and Tampico.

History

Then name of the state is derived from Tamaholipa which is a Huastec term, where the tam- prefix signifies "place where". As yet, there is no scholarly agreement on the meaning of holipa, but "high hills" is a common interpretation (however, a native population of Tamaulipas, now extinct, was referred to as the "Olives" during the early colonial period, which is a likely Spanish transformation on holipa).

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.

Municipalities

The state is subdivided into 43 municipalities.

1. Abasolo
2. Aldama
3. Altamira
4. Antiguo Morelos
5. Burgos
6. Bustamante
7. Cd. Camargo
8. Casas
9. Cruillas
10. Gómez Farías
11. González
12. Güemez
13. Nueva Ciudad Guerrero
14. Cd. Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
15. Hidalgo
16. Jaumave
17. Santander Jiménez
18. Llera de Canales
19. Madero
20. Villa Mainero
21. Mante
22. Matamoros
23. Méndez
24. Mier
25. Ciudad Miguel Alemán
26. Miquihuana
27. Nuevo Laredo
28. Nuevo Morelos
29. Ocampo
30. Nueva Villa de Padilla
31. Palmillas
32. Reynosa
33. Río Bravo
34. San Carlos
35. San Fernando
36. San Nicolás
37. Soto la Marina
38. Tampico
39. Tula
40. Valle Hermoso
41. Victoria
42. Villagrán
43. Xicoténcatl

External links

• Tamaulipas state government (http://www.tamaulipas.gob.mx/) (in Spanish)
• University of Tamaulipas (http://www.uat.mx/)
• Photographs of Tamaulipas (http://www.lodgephoto.com/galleries/MX/tamaulipas)

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