Nuevo Laredo Municipality Municipio de Nuevo Laredo |
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Motto: Siempre Con La Patria | |||
Location of the Municipality of Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas | |||
Settled | 1847 | ||
Government | |||
• Presidente Municipal | Ramón Garza Barrios | ||
Area | |||
• Municipality | 1,334.02 km2 (515.07 sq mi) | ||
Population (2010 census) | |||
• Municipality | 384,033 | ||
• Metro | 636,516 | ||
Time zone | CST (UTC-6) | ||
• Summer (DST) | CST (UTC-5) | ||
Codigo Postal | 88000 | ||
Area code(s) | 876 | ||
Website | Municipio de Nuevo Laredo | ||
Airport: Quetzalcoatl International Airport MMNL |
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. By population, the municipality is the third largest in the state of Tamaulipas (behind Reynosa and Matamoros respectively). The Nuevo Laredo municipality is the northernmost in Tamaulipas, lying at the extreme northwestern tip of its narrow strip of land along the Río Grande. The city of Nuevo Laredo contains approximately 97.5% of the total population of the municipality.
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Nuevo Laredo is located in the Northern tip of Tamaulipas on the west end of the Rio Grande Plains. Rio Grande is the only source that supplies its citizens with water. El Coyote Creek supplies Nuevo Laredo’s only natural lake El Laguito (The Small Lake). The area consists of a few hills and flat land covered with grass, oak, cacti, and mesquite.
Nuevo Laredo features a semiarid climate. Nuevo Laredo's weather is influenced by its proximity to the Chihuahuan Desert to the west, by the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains to the south and west, and by the Gulf of Mexico to the east. Much of the moisture from the Pacific is blocked by the Sierra Madre Oriental. Therefore most of the moisture derives from the Gulf of Mexico. Its geographic location causes Nuevo Laredo's weather to range from long periods of heat to sudden violent storms in a short period of time. Nuevo Laredo is cold for Tamaulipas standards during winter, the average daytime highs are around 66 °F (19 C) and overnight lows around 43 °F (6 C); although it is rare for snow to fall in Nuevo Laredo, there was actually snow on the ground for a few hours on the morning of Christmas Day 2004.
Nuevo Laredo experiences an average high temperature of about 99 °F (37 C), and an average low of about 75 °F (24 C) during summer, and 20 inches (510 mm) of rain per year. As Laredo sometimes undergoes drought, a water conservation ordinance was implemented in 2003.
Climate data for Nuevo Laredo | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °F (°C) | 92 (33) |
94 (34) |
99 (37) |
108 (42) |
112 (44) |
112 (44) |
111 (44) |
112 (44) |
109 (43) |
101 (38) |
99 (37) |
93 (34) |
104 (40) |
Average high °F (°C) | 66 (19) |
71 (22) |
80 (27) |
88 (31) |
92 (33) |
96 (36) |
99 (37) |
99 (37) |
93 (34) |
86 (30) |
76 (25) |
68 (20) |
84 (29) |
Average low °F (°C) | 43 (6) |
47 (8) |
55 (13) |
63 (17) |
69 (21) |
73 (23) |
75 (24) |
75 (24) |
74 (22) |
63 (17) |
53 (12) |
45 (7) |
61 (16) |
Record low °F (°C) | 26 (−3) |
29 (−2) |
33 (1) |
38 (3) |
54 (12) |
66 (19) |
68 (20) |
64 (18) |
56 (13) |
42 (6) |
33 (1) |
15 (−9) |
43.6 (7) |
Precipitation inches (cm) | 1.0 (2.5) |
1.1 (2.7) |
0.8 (1.9) |
1.8 (4.5) |
2.6 (6.6) |
3.2 (8.1) |
1.5 (3.8) |
2.7 (6.8) |
3.1 (7.9) |
2.5 (6.4) |
1.2 (2.9) |
0.9 (2.4) |
22.2 (56.5) |
Source: worldclimate.com[1] |
Nuevo Laredo is governed by an elected Cabildo, which is composed of the Presidente Municipal (Municipal President or Mayor), two Síndicos, and twenty Regidores. The PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) is in control of the city government. The Mayor is in charge of the municipal administration. The Síndicos supervise the municipal budget and expenditures, and the Regidores are elected by the party.
Public safety is provided by three municipal departments: (1) municipal police (Dirección de Seguridad Ciudadana), (2) traffic control (Dirección de Seguridad Vial), and (3) the emergency services department (Dirección de Protección Civil, Bomberos y Desastres).[2]
The largest localities (cities, towns, and villages) are:[3]
Name | 2010 Census Population |
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Nuevo Laredo | 373,725 |
El Campanario y Oradel | 6,951 |
Bruno Álvarez Valdez | 1,714 |
Nuevo Progreso (El Progreso) | 432 |
América | 255 |
América | 197 |
La Cruz | 159 |
Miguel Alemán | 114 |
Morelos (El Estero) | 96 |
La Esperanza | 69 |
Los Artistas Segunda Etapa | 54 |
other | 267 |
Total Municipality | 384,033 |
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Coordinates: 27°25′58″N 99°40′24″W / 27.43278°N 99.67333°W
Nuevo Laredo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈnweβo laˈɾeðo]) is a city located in the Municipality of Nuevo Laredo in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The city lies on the banks of the Rio Grande, across from the United States city of Laredo, Texas. The 2010 census population of the city was 373,725. Nuevo Laredo is part of the Laredo-Nuevo Laredo Metropolitan Area with a total population of 636,516. The municipality has an area of 1,334.02 km² (515.07 sq mi). Both the city and the municipality rank as the third largest in the state.
The city is connected to Laredo, Texas, across the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo) river by three international bridges and a rail bridge. The city is both larger and younger than its U.S. counterpart. It is the largest inland port in Mexico, just as its counterpart across the border is the busiest inland port (bridge crossing) in the United States. As an indication of its economic importance, one of Mexico's banderas monumentales is located in the city (these flags have been established in state capitals and cities of significance).
In Nuevo Laredo the moon is aglow in Nuevo Laredo in old Mexico
In Nuevo Laredo in old Mexico
The other tourists they're spending their dough
But she spends her time singing love songs you see
And everytime she sang a song she thre a kiss to me
In Nuevo Laredo the moon is aglow in Nuevo Laredo in old Mexico
In Nuevo Laredo the blue Rio Grande
Was bright in the moonlight as I held her hand
She sang me a love song the whole lovely night
We kissed and kissed and kissed and kissed intil the the morning light
In Nuevo Laredo the moon is aglow in Nuevo Laredo in old Mexico
In Nuevo Laredo I found true romance
With my senorita I sang and I danced
We had a fiesta from morning till night
And then her father caught us crumble for a fight
In Nuevo Laredo I travel no more
Since her father hollered don't darken my door
But each night by moonlight I'm all happy man
You should see me swim to her across the Rio Grande