Nuevo Laredo is a city in the Municipality of Nuevo Laredo in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
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19 Facts About Nuevo Laredo
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Nuevo Laredo is part of the Laredo-Nuevo Laredo Metropolitan Area with a population of 636, 516.
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City is connected to Nuevo Laredo, United States by three international bridges and a rail bridge.
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Nuevo Laredo was part of the territory of the original settlement of Laredo which was founded in 1755 by the Spaniard Don Tomas Sanchez in the northern part of the Rio Grande.
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Nuevo Laredo was founded on June 15, 1848, by seventeen Laredo families who wished to remain Mexican and therefore moved to the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.
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The founders of Nuevo Laredo even took with them the bones of their ancestors so they would continue to rest in Mexican ground.
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Nuevo Laredo is a lucrative drug corridor because of the large volume of trucks that pass through the area, and the multiple exploitable ports of entry.
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Nuevo Laredo is the base of Los Zetas, originally the armed wing of the Gulf Cartel; the two organizations separated in early 2010 and have been fighting for the control of the smuggling routes to the United States.
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Nuevo Laredo is in the northern tip of Tamaulipas on the west end of the Rio Grande Plains.
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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.
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Nuevo Laredo is governed by an elected Cabildo, which is composed of the Presidente Municipal, two Sindicos, and twenty Regidores.
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Nuevo Laredo is the most important trade border crossing of Latin America (approximately 8500 trucks cross the border each day).
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Nuevo Laredo has a very developed logistics and transportation industry, complemented with a variety of hotel chains, restaurants and a cultural center where events such as the Tamaulipas International Festival take place.
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Nuevo Laredo is on the primary trade route connecting Canada, the United States and Mexico.
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Nuevo Laredo is served by the Quetzalcoatl International Airport with daily flights to Mexico City.
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Transporte Urbano de Nuevo Laredo is the mass transit system that operates in Nuevo Laredo with fixed routes with millions of passengers per year.
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Nuevo Laredo has three main theaters the "Centro Cultural", "Teatro de la Ciudad", and "Casa de Cultura".
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Bravos de Nuevo Laredo is a football club in the Tercera Division in Nuevo Laredo.
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Toros de Nuevo Laredo is a basketball team in Nuevo Laredo, playing in the Mexican professional league Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional.
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