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Alamo

Alamo, located in the Rio Grande Valley is a city in the irrigated area of southern , United States in an area of vegetable farming and citrus groves, and is a noted winter resort/retirement town near the Mexico–U.S. border.
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  • Type: Town with 18,400 residents
  • Description: city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States
  • Also known as: “Alamo, Texas”, “Alamo, TX”, “Ebenezer”, and “Swallow”
  • Postal code: 78516

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pharr - San Juan - Alamo Memorial High School and Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle.

School
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Memorial Early College High School is a high school in Alamo, . It is part of the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District and is one of the district's six high schools.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The is a minor basilica of the Catholic Church located in , . It is also a national shrine under the direction of the Diocese of Brownsville. is situated 2½ miles northwest of Alamo.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Juan and Pharr.

Town
is a city in , , United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 35,294, an increase over the figure of 33,856 tabulated in 2010. is situated 2 miles west of Alamo.

Town
Photo: Wbaron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in , United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 79,715, and in 2022, the estimated population was 80,187. is situated 4 miles west of Alamo.

Village
is a census-designated place in , , United States. The population was 2,367 at the 2020 United States Census. It is part of the –– Metropolitan Statistical Area. is situated 4½ miles northwest of Alamo.

Alamo

Latitude
26.18369° or 26° 11′ 1″ north
Longitude
-98.12306° or 98° 7′ 23″ west
Population
18,400
Elevation
98 feet (30 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US AMO
Open location code
76R35VMG+FQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151380416
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4670074
Wiki­data ID
Q981989
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Alamo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ألامو”
  • Basque: “Alamo”
  • Catalan: “Alamo”
  • Cebuano: “Alamo”
  • Chechen: “Аламо”
  • Chinese: “Alamo”
  • Croatian: “Alamo”
  • Czech: “Alamo”
  • Danish: “Alamo”
  • Dutch: “Alamo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الامو”
  • French: “Alamo”
  • French: “Álamo”
  • German: “Alamo”
  • Gilaki: “آلامو”
  • Haitian: “Alamo, Texas”
  • Haitian: “Alamo”
  • Irish: “Alamo”
  • Italian: “Alamo”
  • Japanese: “アラモ (テキサス州)”
  • Japanese: “アラモ”
  • Ladin: “Alamo”
  • Malagasy: “Alamo, Texas”
  • Malagasy: “Alamo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alamo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alamo”
  • Persian: “آلامو، تگزاس”
  • Persian: “آلامو”
  • Persian: “الامو، تگزاس”
  • Persian: “الامو”
  • Polish: “Alamo”
  • Russian: “Аламо”
  • Serbian: “Аламо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alamo, Texas”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alamo”
  • Slovak: “Alamo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلامو، تکزاس”
  • Spanish: “Álamo (Texas)”
  • Spanish: “Álamo”
  • Tatar: “Аламо (Техас)”
  • Tatar: “Аламо”
  • Turkish: “Alamo, Teksas”
  • Turkish: “Alamo”
  • Ukrainian: “Аламо”
  • Uzbek: “Alamo”
  • Uzbek: “Аламо”
  • Vietnamese: “Alamo, Texas”
  • Vietnamese: “Alamo”
  • Volapük: “Alamo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alamo, Texas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alamo”
  • Welsh: “Alamo, Texas”
  • Welsh: “Alamo”
  • “Alamo”

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