Tamaulipas is a state in the north-east of
Mexico. Tamaulipas borders on the Mexican states of
Veracruz to the south,
San Luis Potosi to the south-west, and
Nuevo Leon to the west. To the east Tamaulipas fronts the
Gulf of Mexico; to the north Tamaulipas borders
Texas,
United States of America. According to the
2000 census, Tamaulipas had a population of 2,753,222 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 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.
- ISO 3166-2 is MX-TAM.
- The state of Tamaulipas is sub-divided into 43 estates.