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Matamoros

a port in NE Mexico, on the R?o Grande: scene of bitter fighting during the US-Mexican War; centre of a cotton-growing area. Pop.: 481 000 (2005 est.)
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Matamoros

 

a city in northeastern Mexico on the US border. Located in the state of Tamaulipas near the mouth of the Rio Bravo del Norte. Population, 182,900 (1970). Matamoros has a railroad station and is a highway junction. With irrigation the region around Matamoros has become a major cotton-growing area. There are cotton textile, chemical, and food-processing industries.

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A list run by Mexican officials has more than 1,000 people on it, said Elisa Filippone, a U.S.-based volunteer who visits Matamoros several times a week to deliver food and donated clothes.
There's often no shade, and some give up and wander into Matamoros. They may return to the bridges to try again, or they may cross the border illegally and then claim asylum if Border Patrol agents apprehend them.
Posteriormente, se describen los antecedentes historicos y urbanos de la ciudad de Matamoros, donde se hace enfasis en la distribucion espacial de la poblacion y en la disponibilidad de espacios publicos y privados como lugares existentes y posibles de convivencia.
The assailants were travelling in a car and a sport utility vehicle when they intercepted the convoy on the outskirts of Matamoros.
A significant lower mean number of blood meals to molt (8.5 [+ or -] 1.44) was recorded for the cohort from Izucar de Matamoros in respect of the two other studied cohorts (Table 1).
Matamoros made it clear that the figures were "preliminary results" and warned that "there's no other official voice but that of the Tribunal Supremo Electoral."
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