Nuevo Laredo Municipality
The Municipality o Nuevo Laredo is locatit in the Mexican state o Tamaulipas. Its municipal seat is Nuevo Laredo. The municipality contains mair nor 60 localities which the maist important anes are Nuevo Laredo, El Campanario y Oradel, an Álvarez, the last twa bein suburbs o the ceety o Nuevo Laredo. Bi population, the municipality is the third lairgest in the state o Tamaulipas (ahint Reynosa an Matamoros respectively). The Nuevo Laredo municipality is the northmaist in Tamaulipas, lyin at the extreme northwastren tip o its narraeow strip o land alang the Río Grande. The ceety o Nuevo Laredo contains approximately 97.5% o the tot population o the municipality.
Nuevo Laredo Municipality Municipio de Nuevo Laredo | |
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Municipality | |
Motto(s): Siempre Con La Patria | |
Location o the Municipality o Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas | |
Settled | 1847 |
Govrenment | |
• Presidente Municipal | Ramón Garza Barrios |
Area | |
• Municipality | 1334.02 km2 (515.07 sq mi) |
Population (2010 census) | |
• Municipality | 384,033 |
• Metro | 636,516 |
Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CST) |
Codigo Postal | |
Area code(s) | 876 |
Website | Municipio de Nuevo Laredo |
Airport: Quetzalcoatl International Airport MMNL |
Geography
eeditNuevo Laredo is locatit in the northren tip o Tamaulipas on the wast end o the Rio Grande Plains. Rio Grande is the anerlie soorce that supplees its ceetizens wi watter. El Coyote Creek supplees Nuevo Laredo’s anerlie naitural lake El Laguito (The Sma= Lake). The aurie consists o a few hills an flat land covered wi gress, aik, cacti, an mesquite.
Climate
eeditNuevo Laredo featurs a semiarid climate. Nuevo Laredo's wather is influencit bi its proximity tae the Chihuahuan Desert tae the wast, bi the Sierra Madre Oriental muntains tae the sooth an wast, an bi the Guwf o Mexico tae the east. Hintle o the moistur frae the Paceefic is blockit bi the Sierra Madre Oriental. Therefore maist o the moistur derives frae the Guwf o Mexico. Its geographic location causes Nuevo Laredo's wather tae range frae lang periods o heat tae suddent violent storms in a short period o time. Nuevo Laredo is cauld for Tamaulipas staundarts durin winter, the average daytime heichs are aroond 66 °F (19 C) an owernicht laws aroond 43 °F (6 C); awtho it is rare for snaw tae faw in Nuevo Laredo, thare wis actually snaw on the grund for a few oors on the fore-nuin o Christmas Day 2004.
Nuevo Laredo experiences an average heich temperatur o aboot 99 °F (37 C), an an average law o aboot 75 °F (24 C) durin simmer, an 20 inches (510 mm) o rain per year. As Laredo whiles unnergoes drocht, a watter conservation ordinance wis implementit 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 heich °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 heich °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 law °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 law °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) |
Average 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] |
Govrenment
eeditNuevo Laredo is govrened bi an electit Cabildo, which is componed o the Presidente Municipal (Municipal Preses or Mayor), twa Síndicos, an twinty Regidores. The PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Pairty) is in control o the ceety govrenment. The Mayor is in chairge o the municipal admeenistration. The Síndicos supervise the municipal budget an expenditures, an the Regidores are electit bi the pairty.
Public safety
eeditPublic safety is providit bi three municipal depairtments: (1) municipal polis (Dirección de Seguridad Ciudadana), (2) traffeck control (Dirección de Seguridad Vial), an (3) the emergency services depairtment (Dirección de Protección Civil, Bomberos y Desastres).[2]
Touns an veelages
eeditThe lairgest localities (ceeties, touns, an veelages) 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 |
ither | 267 |
Tot Municipality | 384,033 |
Populatit places
eeditAdjacent coonties an municipalities
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eeditReferences
eedit- ↑ "Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Laredo, Texas United States of America". Retrieved 21 Mey 2007.
- ↑ http://www.nuevolaredo.gob.mx/gobierno/organigrama.php Archived 2009-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ 2010 census tables: INEGI Archived 2018-12-25 at the Wayback Machine
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Coordinates: 27°25′58″N 99°40′24″W / 27.43278°N 99.67333°W