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Nuevo Laredo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈnweβo laˈɾeðo]) is a city in the Municipality of Nuevo Laredo in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The city lies on the banks of the Rio Grande, across from Laredo, United States. The 2010 census population of the city was 373,725. [1]
The Laredo–Nuevo Laredo Metropolitan area has a total of 636,516 inhabitants according to the INEGI Census of 2010 [4] and the United States Census estimate of 2010. [5] According to World Gazetteer this urban agglomeration ranked 157th largest in North and South America in 2010 with an estimated population of 675,481.
City plan for Laredo and Nuevo Laredo, "'Plano de los Dos Laredos' created by E.R. Laroche." [3] [7] 1882 Laredo Seminary [5] and city water works [8] established. County Courthouse built. [8] 1883 - Daily Laredo Times newspaper begins publication. [9] 1888 - Laredo Improvement Company formed. [3] 1889 Street railway begins operating. [3]
San Agustin Church was the first church established in the new town of Laredo built as a chapel in 1760 Map of Laredo 137 years after founding. Tomás Sánchez de la Barrera (June 4, 1709 - January 21, 1796) was a veteran Spanish captain who founded Laredo, Texas, United States, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, the only town in the Nuevo Santander province.
Laredo (/ l ə ˈ r eɪ d oʊ / lə-RAY-doh; Spanish:) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Webb County, on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
View of the bridge from Nuevo Laredo. The bridge opened in 1920. The approach to the bridge on the side of the United States was controlled by the Texas Mexican Railway (Tex Mex), which had been owned by the Mexican Government since the turn of the century.
The 2012 Nuevo Laredo massacres were a series of mass murder attacks between the allied Sinaloa Cartel and Gulf Cartel against Los Zetas in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, across the U.S.-Mexico border from Laredo, Texas. The drug-violence in Nuevo Laredo began back in 2003, when the city was controlled by the Gulf Cartel.
The Municipality of Nuevo Laredo is located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.Its municipal seat is Nuevo Laredo.The municipality contains more than 60 localities which the most important ones are Nuevo Laredo, El Campanario y Oradel, and Álvarez, the last two being suburbs of the city of Nuevo Laredo.