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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. Founded in 1755, Laredo grew from a village to the capital of the short-lived Republic of the Rio Grande to the largest ...
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.
Corpus Christi-Laredo railway begins operating. [2] Population: 3,521. 1881 Mexico-Laredo railway begins operating. [2] St. Peter's neighborhood development begins. [3] 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 ...
Nuevo Laredo is served by the Quetzalcóatl International Airport with daily flights to Mexico City. The neighboring Laredo International Airport in Laredo, Texas has daily flights to Houston (George Bush Intercontinental Airport) and to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Tri-weekly flights to Las Vegas, Nevada and bi-weekly seasonal ...
In 1883 a bridge was built across the Rio Grande to Nuevo Laredo, making the Tex-Mex the first Mexico–United States rail connection. This granted rail access for all of Northern Mexico to the Port of Corpus Christi, devastating international commerce in Brownsville in the lower Rio Grande Valley, and its deep water port, Los Brazos de Santiago.
A secret tunnel discovered last week on the U.S.-Mexico border will be sealed by Mexican authorities, an army official in Ciudad Juarez said Saturday. The tunnel, discovered on Jan. 10, connects ...
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The Juárez–Lincoln International Bridge is an eight-lane bridge with and is 1,008 feet (307 m) long and 72 feet (22 m) wide. The international bridge is for buses and non-commercial traffic only. The bridge is also known as Bridge Number Two, Laredo-Nuevo Laredo Bridge 2, New Bridge, Puente Juárez-Lincoln, Laredo II and Puente Nuevo. [3]