Altamira, Tamaulipas

Altamira is a municipality in the southern Mexican state of Tamaulipas. It consists of the same town and county of the same name. The 162 628 inhabitants municipality (as of 2005) consists of 148 villages, of which the city of Miramar with 82 079 inhabitants, is the largest city. The second largest city with 58 896 inhabitants, the city of Altamira, which is also the administrative seat of the homonymous municipality.

Location

The Altamira is bordered to the west on the community González, to the north by Aldama, on the east by the Gulf of Mexico and to the south by the cities of Tampico and Madero and the state of Veracruz. Together with Tampico and Ciudad Madero Altamira forms a metropolitan area with around 660,000 inhabitants, which is roughly the population of Frankfurt am Main.

History

The municipality of Altamira was formally established on 2 May 1749 the border to the neighboring town of Tampico in November 1837 set binding.

Football

Stand Altamira in footballing terms so far almost always in the shadow of the southern neighboring cities Tampico and Madero by the clubs CD Tampico ( Master 1953), CF Madero and Tampico - Madero FC ( the legal successor of the CD Tampico was in the two seasons of the season 1985 / 86 each runner ) were already represented several times in the first division of Mexico, is founded in 2001 currently represented Altamira FC by promotion to the Liga de Ascenso 2010/11 in the second division, while the flagships of its southern neighbor cities currently only the third or. fourth league members.