Ciudad Victoria

Ciudad Victoria on the map of Mexico

Ciudad Victoria is the capital of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. It lies in the center of the state, has 261,000 inhabitants and an area of 1638 km ².

History

Ciudad Victoria was established on October 6, 1750 as Villa de Santa María de Aguayo, José de Escandón y Helguera, named after the first governor of the colony of Nuevo Santander in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The city was in the typical Spanish colonial towns square shape around a central square, today's Plaza Hidalgo created.

On April 20, 1825 Ciudad Victoria was given the status of a city and was named in honor of Mexican President Guadalupe Victoria to him. It became the capital of Tamaulipas. Since 1871 Ciudad Victoria is seat of a Roman Catholic diocese. 1890 a railway line was built that led from Monterrey to Tampico.

The opening of the road from Mexico City to Laredo, which was the beginning of the Pan-American Highway network in the 1930s, changed the cityscape. The function of the city as a transit and hub in northern Mexico was reinforced by the construction of additional roads to the U.S. border on. Since 1941 Ciudad Victoria has the airport El Petaqueño.

Infrastructure

Ciudad Victoria has since the 1960s about a university and several research institutes and high schools.

The Tropic of Cancer is tangent at 23 ° 27 ' north latitude to the southern edge of the city.