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Development is a fact!

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Great Night

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Tourism

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Crafts

Tamaulipas state has large communities that specialize in the manufacture of various objects using different materials such as clay, wood, cloth, fibers and marine elements, among others. The Tamaulipas craft thrives on the imagination of those who need and give form and life to these products which come to acquire for their quality and beauty. They are handicrafts made particularly in the Sierras Southeast, the following: pottery, wooden barrels, wooden carts to yoke, basketry cane otate, wooden chair and riding, saddlery, tailoring of Tamaulipas cuera, handicrafts skin thin and manageable, with stick crafts, woven sisal or lechuguilla, woven maguey, sisal fabrics sotol, woven from sisal Somate, rosita fabrics and woven tule.

How are businesses tamaulipas?

Tamaulipeco Market Access Center makes it easier for micro, small and medium enterprises in the six regions of the state of Tamaulipas access to local, regional, national and international markets, after improving their technical and business management skills.

Festivities

Religious festivities begin in February with Candlemas Day, passed March with the Saints in San Jose, continue through the month of May, when two holidays are celebrated the first day of the Holy Cross, and second to San Isidro Labrador. Subsequently, in June and July, two other festivities at San Antonio de Padua and Our Lady of San Juan; Sweets names of Jesus and the Virgin of Carmen. In August, at Our Lady of the Snows. In October, three festivals, St. Francis of Assisi, Our Lady of the Rosary and St. Jude. Finally, in December, three more, the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, the Virgin of Guadalupe and Christmas Eve, when the latter made ​​in traditional pastorals.

Dining

The abundance of agricultural products and sea is the source of power Tamaulipas since ancient times. Our geography is rich in culinary terms : chubby oven and bocoles El Mante, enchilado kid dialed , stuffed crab , shrimp Huatape , corn atole Tile Camargo , roast tampiqueña , huastecas gorditas , enchiladas Tamaulipas , atole honey maguey mezcal wine pear , pole lechuguilla kid gala cakes style La Barda , woodcock and jacubos , enchiladas Tula, gorditas de Don Pedro in Jaumave , gorditas Doña Tota in Victoria, I ponteduro made ​​with corn and brown sugar , chichimbré or traditional nougat made ​​in Tula, pumpkin blemish honey brown sugar and other regional sweets Llera , shrimp broth or butter in Boca Taking Gómez Farías , the crushing of El Encinal - egg or broth - , and roasters and San Carlos Jimenez - authentic northern - lunch , served with orange juice Barretal orchards in Padilla, are just a sample of good food in northeastern Mexico . The kitchen is well Tamaulipas manages to present at the table , often in one dish , the flavors of the sea and the tropics, the combined acuyo , avocado, parsley and cilantro with shrimp . The art of cooking is undoubtedly one of the qualities of Tamaulipas

Demographycs

City City Population[14] Municipality Population Metropolitan Population[15] Metropolitan area type Reynosa 589,466 608,891 1,501,919[16] International R/RB/H Matamoros 449,815[17] 489,193 1,136,995[18] International M/C Nuevo Laredo 373,725 384,033 636,516 International NL/W/H/C Ciudad Victoria 305,155 321,953 321,953 Municipality Tampico 297,284 309,003 859,419 In and Out-of-state Ciudad Madero 197,216 197,216 – Part of Tampico Metro Miramar 118,614 – – Part of Tampico Metro Rio Bravo 95,647 118,259 – Part of Reynosa Metro Ciudad Mante 84,787 115,792 115,792 Municipality Altamira 59,536 212,001 – Part of Tampico Metro Valle Hermoso 48,918 63,170 63,170 Municipality

Education

Tamaulipas enjoys standards slightly higher than the national averages, since illiteracy has been reduced to 5% for those over 15 years of age, average schooling reaches 7.8 years, and as many as 11% have earned a professional degree. Institutions of higher education include: Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Tamaulipas (IEST) Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Madero (ITCM) Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas

Economy and culture

Northern Tamaulipas shares its economic culture with that of Texas, and is primarily characterized by agriculture and strong growth in all industrial sectors. This region is home to many of the maquiladoras, factories owned by foreign companies but worked by Mexicans, primarily by women. Southern Tamaulipas' economy is based primarily on the petrochemical industries. There are petrochemical production plants around Altamira as well as a principal Gulf coast container port, refinery facilities in Ciudad Madero and many oil-industry support service companies in Tampico, as well as a major general and bulk cargo port.[10] Also of importance are the tourism and fishing industries, as well as much commercial shipping, based in Tampico and Altamira. The little village of La Pesca, in the municipality of Soto La Marina, about midway between Brownsville, Texas and Tampico, is a rapidly growing tourist area with lovely beaches and excellent fishing both in the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio Soto La Marina. The central zone contains the capital, Ciudad Victoria, and is home to much forestry and farming, as well as some industrial development. About 30% of the population lives here, both in the capital and in Ciudad Mante. Ciudad Victoria is a significant educational center, home to the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (which also has campuses in other cities in the state), the Regional Technical Institute of Ciudad Victoria, the University of Valle de Bravo, and other institutions of learning. As of the 1990 Mexican census, 13 percent of the homes had only dirt floors, nearly 19 percent had no running water, and over 15 percent of the homes had no electricity. This was better than the national average, but was skewed because of the high rate of development in the urban centers. In rural communities in Tamaulipas, access to running water was available in less than 40 percent of homes. As of 2005, Tamaulipas’s economy represents 3.3% of Mexico’s total gross domestic product or 21,664 million USD.[11] Tamaulipas's economy has a strong focus on export oriented manufacturing (i.e. maquiladora / INMEX). As of 2005, 258,762 people are employed in the manufacturing sector.[11] Foreign direct investment in Tamaulipas was 386.2 million USD for 2005. The average wage for an employee in Tamaulipas is approximately 240 pesos per day, $2.00 to $3.00 an hour

GEOGRAPHY

The Tropic of Cancer crosses the southern part of the municipality of Victoria. The coastal plains along the Gulf have a large presence in the state, whereas inland the landscape is adorned by cactus species and pasture. Predominant fauna in the region include the Cougar (Puma concolor), Long-tailed Weasel (Mustela frenata), Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), American Badger (Taxidea taxus), North American Beaver (Castor canadensis), Plain Chachalaca (Ortalis vetula) and quail. In the western part of the state, the Sierra Madre Oriental displays warm valleys and high sierras with peaks reaching 3,280 m (10,760 ft) in the Pedragoso Sierra; 3,240 m (10,630 ft) in the Borregos Sierra; 3,220 m (10,560 ft) in La Gloria Sierra; 3,180 m (10,430 ft) in Cerro el Nacimiento; and 3,000 m (9,800 ft) above sea level in the Sierra el Pinal. The Sierra de Tamaulipas and the Sierra de San Carlos are isolated mountain ranges in eastern Tamaulipas. In terms of hydrology, the Bravo, Purificacion and Guayalejo rivers flow into the Gulf of Mexico after crossing the state from the western inland. On their way, their basins and zones of influence naturally correspond to the areas destined for agricultural use. The Rio Grande, known to Mexicans as the Río Bravo, represents the northern frontier shared with the United States. One of the tributaries of this natural border, the San Juan River, feeds the Falcon International Reservoir and the Marte Gomez Dam, which, in conjunction with the "Friendship Dam", reach a capacity of 12,940 million cubic meters of stored water. Agricultural and cattle raising activities are served by 14 other dams across the state, with a total capacity of 7,500 million cubic meters of water. As much as 90% of the state reports a dry or semi-dry climate, while the Huasteca mountain range presents hot and semi-humid conditions, along with humid winds coming from the Gulf, which means it is located in a zone highly influenced by cyclones, with predominant winds coming from the east and southeast.

HISTORY

The area known as Tamaulipas has been inhabited for at least 8,000 years. Several different cultures (north coastal, south coastal, lowlands, and mountains) have come and gone during that period. Tamaulipas was originally populated by the Olmec people and later by Chichimec and Huastec tribes. Between 1445 and 1466, Mexica (or Aztec) armies commanded by Moctezuma I Ilhuicamina conquered much of the territory and transformed it into a tributary region for the Mexica empire. However, the Aztecs never fully conquered certain mostly nomadic indigenous groups in the area. Although Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztecs rather quickly, it took a gradual process for Spain to subjugate the inhabitants of Tamaulipas in the 16th and 17th centuries. The first permanent Spanish settlement in the area was Tampico in 1554. Further settlement was done by Franciscan missionaries, widespread cattle and sheep ranching by the Spanish bolstered the area’s economy while forcing native populations from their original lands. Repeated indigenous rebellions kept the area unstable and weakened colonial interest in the region. What is now Tamaulipas was first incorporated as a separate province of New Spain in 1746 with the name Nuevo Santander. The local government capital during this time moved from Santander to San Carlos, and finally to Aguayo. The territory of this time spanned from the San Antonio river to the north east to the Gulf of Mexico, then south to the Panuco River near Tampico and west to the Sierra Madre Mountains. This area became a haven for rebellious Indians who fled here after increased Spanish settlements in Nuevo Leon and Coahuila. In the middle 17th century various Apache bands from the southern Plains, after acquiring horses from Spaniards in New Mexico, moved southeastward into the Edwards Plateau, displacing the native hunting and gathering groups. One of these groups was known as Lipan (see Hodge 1907 Vol. I:769 for a confusing list of synonyms). After 1750, when most Apache groups of the central Texas highlands were displaced by Comanche and moved into the coastal plain of southern Texas, the Spaniards of the San Antonio area began referring to all Apache groups in southern Texas as Lipan or Lipan Apache (Campbell and Campbell 1981:62–64). Many Indian groups of missions in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico had recently been displaced from their territory through the southward push by the Lipan Apaches and were still hostile toward Apaches, linking arms with the local Spanish authorities against their common foe. By 1790 Spaniards turned their attention from the aboriginal groups and focused o­n containing the Apache invaders. In northeastern Coahuila and adjacent Texas, Spanish and Apache displacements created an unusual ethnic mix. Here the local Indians mixed with displaced groups from Coahuila and Chihuahua and Texas. Some groups, to escape the pressure, combined and migrated north into the Central Texas highlands.