Northern Mexico
Tamaulipas
Matamoros

Matamoros

Matamoros is a city of 520,000 people in in . 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".
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  • Type: City with 511,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tamaulipas, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Heroica Matamoros” and “Matamoros, Tamaulipas”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fuerte Castamata and Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge.

Museum
Photo: Ponchito12345, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Bridge
Photo: Jaedza, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge, also known as B&M International Bridge, and Express Bridge, is one of three international bridges that cross the U.S.-Mexico border between the cities of , and Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

Bridge
Photo: Jaedza, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is one of three international bridges that cross the U.S.-Mexico border between the cities of , and Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brownsville.

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, CC0.
Located at the southernmost tip of , is a popular location for Mexican and American beach tourists. It is part of the , a four-county region known for its abundance in citrus fruit production and Winter Texan population.

Matamoros

Latitude
25.881° or 25° 52′ 52″ north
Longitude
-97.5065° or 97° 30′ 23″ west
Population
511,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
IATA airport code
MAM
United Nations Location Code
MX MAM
Open location code
76Q4VFJV+CC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 296889512
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3523466
Wiki­data ID
Q738353
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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، تامائولیپاس”
  • 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 Tamaulipas”
  • Spanish: “Matamoros”
  • Swahili: “Matamoros”
  • Swedish: “Heroica Matamoros”
  • Swedish: “Matamoros”
  • Tagalog: “Matamoros, Tamaulipas”
  • Tagalog: “Matamoros”
  • Tamil: “மடமொரோஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Матаморос”
  • Telugu: “మతమొరస్”
  • Thai: “มาทาร์โมรอส”
  • 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”
  • “Matamoros”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Matamoros”. Photo: MX, CC BY-SA 4.0.