Cities in Mexico State of Tamaulipas

Tamaulipas State of Mexico

The highlighted green area is Tamaulipas

Mexico has a vast bus system of 800 bus companies that can transport you to every corner of its 32 states. Over 39,000 Mexico bus schedules offer you a variety of inexpensive travel options.

Mexico’s bus system helps you save money by avoiding expensive rental cars, save time by avoiding airport security hassles, and save vacation memories by meeting local people as you get off the beaten path.

Mexico has the largest and most efficient bus system in the world. Even Mexico business executives park their luxury cars to take an overnight bus to a distant conference so they can arrive fresh in the morning, conduct business, and then return on another overnight bus.

Mexico offers five classes of bus service, ranging from executive class (lujo) with large reclining seats comparable to airline first class, video moves and hostesses serving refreshments, to VW vans that tackle the donkey paths.

But the Mexico bus system with thousands of bus schedules can be bewildering at first. That’s because the Mexico bus companies do not provide printed bus timetables. One tourist in Mexico was even forbidden to photograph timetables posted above bus ticket counters. Contacting Mexico bus companies by telephone can be a frustrating, and very expensive, experience. Bus companies often do not have bilingual agents answering the phones.

Major travel guide books aren’t too much help. They advise you to take expensive rental cars (do you know Mexico’s travel laws, and can read Mexico’s traffic signs), and in some cases devote more space to a practically non-existant passenger train system.

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Nuevo Laredo is the Northern terminus of the national Railroad and the Inter-Americas Highway, as well as an important point of entry for U.S. tourists driving to Mexico. It is also a center of international trade and the distribution point for an agricultural (mainly cotton) and livestock-raising area; commerce; tourism industry.

Nuevo Laredo has been one of the many Mexican cities affected by an influx of foreign capital, primarily due to the establishment of foreign-owned industrial plants, known as maquiladoras. Has developed into a transportation-trans-shipment center since NAFTA (1993).

Founded in 1755, the city was part of Laredo until the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848. Nuevo Laredo played a role in the Mexican revolution of 1910 and was burned extensively in 1914.

Rivaling Veracruz as Mexico's most important seaport, Tampico is used primarily for Mexico's petroleum industry and fishing. It possesses excellent modern facilities and also serves as an export center for Tamaulipas's other goods, including cattle, hides, sugar, and additional agricultural products.

In pre-Columbian times, the Tampico area was the site of the Huastec kingdom, which later became a tributary of the Aztec Empire. Spanish settlement dates back to the founding of a Franciscan mission there in the 1530s. Tampico was occupied by a U.S. force during the Mexican War and by French troops in 1862, during the French intervention.

With the discovery of oil (circa 1900) by Engineer and American geologists, rapid development of petroleum industries began; before Mexico expropriated foreign-owned property, about 13 percent of Tampico's landowners were Americans. The city boomed while much of the rest of Mexico was in revolutionary turmoil.

Tampico is the seat of a state university and an active cultural center.