Matamoros
Matamoros is a city of 520,000 people in Tamaulipas in Mexico. Matamoros is a major historical site, the site of several battles and events of the Mexican War of Independence, the Mexican Revolution, the Texas Revolution, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, and the French Intervention as a result of which the city earned its title of "Undefeated, Loyal, and Heroic".
- City with 511,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 16 metres (52 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code MAM
- Description: municipal seat of Matamoros, State of Tamaulipas, Mexico
- Also known as“Heroica Matamoros”“Matamoros, Tamaulipas”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fuerte Castamata and Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge.
Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge
Bridge
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Gateway International Bridge
Bridge
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brownsville.
Matamoros
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Latitude
25.881° or 25° 52′ 52″ north
Longitude
-97.5065° or 97° 30′ 23″ west
UN/LOCODE
MX MAM
Open location code
76Q4VFJV+CC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Matamoros” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماتاموروس”
- Armenian: “Մատամորոս”
- Asturian: “Matamoros”
- Basque: “Matamoros”
- Bengali: “মাতামোরস”
- Bulgarian: “Матаморос”
- Bulgarian: “Метаморос”
- Catalan: “Matamoros”
- Cebuano: “Heroica Matamoros”
- Central Kurdish: “ماتامۆرۆس”
- Chinese: “馬塔莫羅斯”
- Chinese: “马塔莫罗斯”
- Czech: “Matamoros”
- Danish: “Matamoros”
- Dutch: “Heroica Matamoros”
- Dutch: “Matamoros”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماتاموروس”
- Esperanto: “Heroica Matamoros”
- Esperanto: “Matamoros”
- Finnish: “Matamoros”
- French: “Heroica Matamoros”
- French: “Matamoros”
- Galician: “Matamoros”
- Georgian: “მატამოროსი”
- German: “Heroica Matamoros”
- Greek: “Ματαμόρος”
- Gujarati: “મેટામોરોઝ”
- Hebrew: “מטמורוס”
- Hindi: “मातामोरोस”
- Hungarian: “Heroica Matamoros”
- Hungarian: “Matamoros”
- Indonesian: “Matamoros”
- Irish: “Matamoros”
- Italian: “Heroica Matamoros”
- Italian: “Matamoros”
- Japanese: “マタモロス”
- Kannada: “ಮ್ಯಾಟಮೊರೊಸ್”
- Korean: “마타모로스”
- Latvian: “Matamorosa”
- Lithuanian: “Matamorosas”
- Malay: “Matamoros”
- Marathi: “मातामोरॉस”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Heroica Matamoros”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Matamoros”
- Norwegian: “Matamoros”
- Persian: “ماتاموروس”
- Polish: “Heroica Matamoros”
- Polish: “Matamoros”
- Portuguese: “Heroica Matamoros”
- Portuguese: “Matamoros”
- Russian: “Матаморос”
- Russian: “Эройка-Матаморос”
- Scots: “Matamoros”
- Serbian: “Matamoros”
- Serbian: “Матаморос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Heroica Matamoros, Matamoros”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Heroica Matamoros”
- Sinhala: “මටමොරෝස්”
- Spanish: “Heroica Matamoros”
- Spanish: “Matamoros”
- Swahili: “Matamoros”
- Swedish: “Heroica Matamoros”
- Swedish: “Matamoros”
- Tagalog: “Matamoros, Tamaulipas”
- Tagalog: “Matamoros”
- Tamil: “மடமொரோஸ்”
- Tatar: “Матаморос”
- Telugu: “మతమొరస్”
- Thai: “มาทาร์โมรอส”
- Tumbuka: “Matamoros”
- Turkish: “Matamoros, Tamaulipas”
- Turkish: “Matamoros”
- Ukrainian: “Еройка-Матаморос”
- Ukrainian: “Матаморос”
- Urdu: “ماتاموروس، تاماولیپاس”
- Urdu: “ماتاموروس”
- Venetian: “Matamoros”
- Vietnamese: “Matamoros”
- Waray (Philippines): “Matamoros, Tamaulipas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Matamoros”
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