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  Tamaulipas at AllExperts
Tamaulipas is a state in the northeast of Mexico.
Tamaulipas borders on the states of Veracruz to the south, San Luis Potosí to the southwest, and Nuevo León to the west.
The French occupation and reign of Emperor Maximilian during the 1860's was difficult for Tamaulipas, at least on the borders and in the city of Tampico.
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 Tamaulipas - 1 location and size, 2 climate, 3 plants and animals, 4 environmental protection
Tamaulipas covers an area of 79,829 square kilometers (30,822 square miles), which is a little smaller than the US state of South Carolina.
Tamaulipas has hills and plains in the northern, central, eastern, and southeastern regions.
Tamaulipas had a total population of 2,753,222 in 2000; of the total, 1,359,874 were men and 1,393,348 were women.
www.nationsencyclopedia.com /mexico/Michoac-n-Zacatecas/Tamaulipas.html   (2491 words)

  
  Tamaulipas. Who is Tamaulipas? What is Tamaulipas? Where is Tamaulipas? Definition of Tamaulipas. Meaning of ...
Tamaulipas is a state in the northeast of Mexico.
Tamaulipas borders on the Mexican states of Veracruz to the south, San Luis Potosí to the southwest, and Nuevo León to the west.
Also in Tamaulipas are the cities of Ciudad Madero, Matamoros, Miramar, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Río Bravo, and Tampico.
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Tamaulipas   (138 words)

  
 Webdesign Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Also in Tamaulipas are the cities of Altamira, Cd.
As yet, there is no scholarly agreement on the meaning of holipa, but "high hills" is a common interpretation (however, a native population of Tamaulipas, now extinct, was referred to as the "Olives" during the early colonial period, which is a likely Spanish transformation on holipa).
The state is subdivided into 43 municipalities (municipios).
www.webdesignencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Tamaulipas   (199 words)

  
 Travel Easy Mexico, Photos, Maps, Info and tourist guide about San Tamaulipas State
In Tamaulipas the Cancer Tropic crosses north of Bustamante, to the south Ciudad Victoria and Soto la Marina and north of Llara and of Aldama.
Tamaulipas limit to the north, with USA; to the south with the State of Veracruz and with the State of San Luis Potosí to the east with the Gulf of Mexico and to the west with the State of Nuevo Leon.
., distributed in 43 municipalities with a population of approximately 2'753,222 inhabitants.
www.mexicotravelersguide.com /tamaulipas.html   (190 words)

  
 Tamaulipas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Tamaulipas is a state in the northeast of (A Republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810) Mexico.
Tamaulipas borders on the Mexican states of (A major Mexican port on the Gulf of Mexico in the state of Veracruz) Veracruz to the south, (A city in central Mexico) San Luis Potosí to the southwest, and (Click link for more info and facts about Nuevo León) Nuevo León to the west.
What is now Tamaulipas was first incorporated as a separate province of (Click link for more info and facts about New Spain) New Spain in 1746 with the name Nuevo Santander.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Ta/Tamaulipas.htm   (494 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
For rural municipalities, property taxes, however, are not a significant source of revenue, and these municipalities depend on monthly revenue sharing transfers received from the state for approximately 90 percent of their revenue.
The Municipal Funds program has successfully increased the amount of financing available for infrastructure in poor rural communities, doing so by involving those communities and their municipal governments in establishing priorities for investment and ensuring that they are implemented.
Municipalities can use these resources to respond rapidly to communities' requests for water supply, the rehabilitation of a section of rural road, paving of the streets of the town center, or reconstruction of a dilapidated school building.
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 Tamaulipas Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
To the east Tamaulipas fronts the Gulf of Mexico; to the north Tamaulipas borders Texas, United StatesUSA.
The capital of Tamaulipas is Ciudad Victoria, TamaulipasCd.
Also in Tamaulipas are the cities of Altamira, TamaulipasAltamira, Ciudad Madero, TamaulipasCd.
www.echostatic.com /Tamaulipas.html   (213 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Tamaulipas
Matamoros is a city in the north of the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
The Huastec, also rendered as Huaxtec and Huastecos, are an indigenous people of Mexico, historically based in the Mexican states of Hidalgo, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas concentrated along the route of the Panuco river and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tamaulipas   (1608 words)

  
 Issue Papers and Extended Responses
The municipalities in Tamaulipas have their own municipal police forces, but the chief of police in each municipality is appointed by the state governor (ibid.).
There are 58 municipalities in San Luis Potosí, all of which have their own preventive police and most of which have their own traffic police (ibid.).
Municipal preventive police, which number 1,800, wear blue uniforms with a fl stripe down the side of the pants, and municipal traffic police wear beige uniforms (ibid.).
www.irb-cisr.gc.ca /en/research/publications/index_e.htm?docid=105&sec=CH04&disclaimer=show   (3870 words)

  
 Regionalism, Regime Transformation, and Pronasol:
In Tamaulipas, both the PRD and the PAN gained in the aftermath of severe confrontations between Salinas and the corporatist groups led by the boss of the petroleum workers union, Joaquín Hernández "La Quina;" in 1992, a PAN candidate was elected to the municipal presidency of the capital city.
The deterioration of electoral support for the PRI was evident in the 1988 presidential race; and the vulnerability of the ruling party became even clearer during the local elections of 1992, when important electoral districts and the capital city itself fell to opposition forces of both the left and right.
Like his PANista rivals, he may next turn to municipal politics as a stepping stone to the governorship of the state; with his local base of power in Tijuana, he is in a position to contend for the PRI nomination in the mayoral race of 1998.
www.columbia.edu /~chalmers/KandT.html   (10365 words)

  
 Puerto Vallarta - Mexico Magico - PVMirror.com E-Newspaper
Indigenous Municipality and Municipal Seat: Where both the municipality and its seat are indigenous and there are no dispersed or settlements as defined by the census.
Indigenous Municipality and Communities: Where the municipality consists of communities or settlements indigenous in the majority of population.
Municipalities with a non-Indigenous center and with peripheral Indigenous Communities where the seat of the municipality consists of a mestizo majority and the communities are essentially indigenous.
www.pvmirror.com /mexicomagico/indig3.html   (610 words)

  
 Geography. Tamaulipas.
Tamaulipas is one of the 31 states of the Mexican Republic.
In Tamaulipas, the climate depends on the latitude, its closeness to the Gulf of Mexico, and the height of the mountains.
Tamaulipas has six natural regions: La Frontera, Los Llanos de San Fernando, the San Carlos Region, the Central Basin, the Southwestern Sierras, and the Tamaulipas Huasteca.
www.elbalero.gob.mx /kids/explora/html/tamaulipas/geografia.html   (219 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Tamaulipas
According to the 2006 census, Tamaulipas had a population of some 3,024,238 people.
Also in Tamaulipas are the cities of Altamira, Ciudad Madero, Ciudad Mante, Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Tampico, Valle Hermoso, San Fernando, Soto La Marina, Rio Bravo
Ciudad Victoria is a significant educational center, home to the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (which also has campuses in other cities in the state), the Regional Technical Institute of Ciudad Victoria, the University of Valle de Bravo, and other institutions of learning.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Tamaulipas   (952 words)

  
 The Challenge of Providing Water and Sewer Service
States maintained their responsibility for municipal water and wastewater service through a provision of Article 115 that allows states to step in and carry out functions allocated to municipalities "when necessary and [where] state law permits." States have argued that municipal governments cannot adequately provide water and sewer services.
Municipal governments are also reluctant to assume responsibility for provision of services because the municipalities would inherit the problems created by the poor management of state utilities, specifically water and sewer systems that need significant rehabilitation and expansion and inefficient billing and collection systems (Interview with municipal official).
Municipal service not always under the control of the municipality; often municipalities accept this situation because they do not have the financial resources to take responsibility themeselves.
www.socsci.umn.edu /~bongman/urbansustainability/CARTEROR.htm   (7671 words)

  
 May 2001 Article
Tamaulipas’ industrial growth is made possible thanks to the state’s physical infrastructure and services; more than 20 industrial parks, electric power, fuels, a wide variety of transportation (by land, air and sea) and mainly a young labor force with high quality and productivity rates.
The transformation industry in Tamaulipas consists of more than 6,000 establishments, of which 39 percent are dedicated to the production of foods, drinks and tobacco; 20 percent to the metallic product manufacture, machinery and equipment and 41 percent to other activities such as textiles, paper, chemical substances and products derived from petroleum.
The conditions for producing synthetic fibers, for cultivating cotton and the abundance of water of the region, are some factors that motivated important manufacturing fabric companies to settle in Tamaulipas.
www.twinplantnews.com /issues/may02/articleofmonth1.htm   (1308 words)

  
 About the Music of Cuba - worldmusic.cc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
There are 2,438 municipalities in Mexico; the state with the greatest number of municipalities is Oaxaca (with 570 municipalities) and the state with the least number is Baja California (with only 5).
The metropolitan area of the city, however, extends over 40 municipalities of the state of Mexico and 1 of the state of Hidalgo, and with a population of 19.2 million, it is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world.
While not fully equivalent to a municipality (nor the concept of a municipio libre), the 16 boroughs have gained significant autonomy and since 2000 the heads of government of the boroughs are elected directly by plurality (they were previously appointed by the head of government of the Federal District).
www.worldmusic.cc /en/music/latin_america/cuba/698.html?title=States_of_Mexico   (1903 words)

  
 Tour By Mexico ® - Tamaulipas State --- 7
State of Tamaulipas located to the northeast of Mexico, between the parallel 22º 12' 48'' and 27º 40' 47'' of north latitude and the meridian 1º 56' 55'' of length east and 1º 100' 46'' to the west.
In Tamaulipas the Cancer Tropic crosses north of Bustamante, to the south
Tamaulipas limit to the north, with USA; to the south with the
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 CPD: Middle America, Site MA9, Gómez Farías Region and El Cielo Biosphere Reserve
From a report on useful plants of Tamaulipas (Hernández-Sandoval, González and González-Medrano 1991), the many species and uses that follow were derived for the Gómez Farías region: 167 medicinals, 98 edible, 11 fodder, 5 energy sources, 84 timbers, 16 industrial usage and 69 ornamentals.
Archaeological studies in southern Tamaulipas caves reveal that early cultures practised agriculture with squash, beans and chili peppers (MacNeish 1964).
Martin, P.S. A biogeography of reptiles and amphibians in the Gómez Farías region, Tamaulipas, México.
www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/ma/ma9.htm   (3470 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
To the east Tamaulipas fronts the Gulf of Mexico; to the north Tamaulipas borders Texas, United States USA.
Also in Tamaulipas are the cities of Altamira, Tamaulipas Altamira, Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas Cd.
The state is subdivided into 43 municipalities ''(municipality municipios)''.
www.mauspfeil.net /Tamaulipas.html   (315 words)

  
 MINIMUM EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS IN MEXICO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
First, the labor contract must be signed by a competent municipal authority and countersigned by the consul of the nation to which the employer is to go.
In addition to the ordinary specifications to be contained in the contract, it must clearly specify that the expense of repatriating the employee should be borne by the foreign employer.
By law, minimum wages cannot be the subject of set off, discount or reduction, except in the cases mentioned in FLL Article 97: 1) Alimony or maintenance payments ordered by the competent authority in favor of spouse, children, parents or grandparents and grandchildren, decreed by the competent authority.
www.natlaw.com /interam/mx/lb/sp/torrient.htm   (8452 words)

  
 Politics
Tamaulipas Governor Eugenio Hernandez Flores said he plans to propose strengthening and expanding the North American Development Bank (Nadbank), which was established under a side accord to the North American Free Trade Agreement to fund environmental and infrastructure projects on both sides of the border.
Miguel Angel Almaraz, Tamaulipas PRD leader, said he expected more protests in the border state in support of a national vote-by-vote recount, but was awaiting further instructions from the party leadership in Mexico City.
In one place, Los Aldama, a municipality located southwest of the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Guerra contended that the CEE could not locate a single pre-approved election worker because every last individual was in the United States, legally or illegally.
www.nmsu.edu /~frontera/poli.html   (11854 words)

  
 Mexico Desconocido: music Meced Chimalli choir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Once they had been incorporated into this program, run by the Tamaulipas DIF (Integral Family Development) system, the children were given health care and education to improve their quality of life.
It was then that the idea of creating a state choir arose, as a result of which auditions were held in each of the fifteen municipalities involved.
Four hundred and fifty children were selected to form 14 municipal choirs, and out of these, another 50 children were chosen for the choir.
www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx /english/cultura_y_sociedad/arte/detalle.cfm?idsec=14&idsub=53&idpag=2524   (203 words)

  
 GardeningDaily - Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas borders on the Mexican states of Veracruz to the south, San Luis Potosí to the southwest, and Nuevo León to the west.
To the east Tamaulipas fronts the Gulf of Mexico; to the north Tamaulipas borders Texas, USA.
The state is subdivided into 43 municipalities (municipios).
www.gardeningdaily.com /flowers-and-plants/Tamaulipas   (198 words)

  
 Rio Grande Basin/Planeta.com
While the anticipated trend for the border municipalities is growth, Valley agriculture water demand is expected to steadily decline over the next fifty years.
The raw water demand factors into all water use including irrigation, municipal, industrial, as well as water needed to maintain and operate the system and water that is diverted into resacas.
As the largest users, farmers and municipalities especially must continue to address their common interest in sharing the water supply and using it more efficiently.
www.planeta.com /ecotravel/border/sabal2.html   (4768 words)

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