Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Last modified: 2004-07-31 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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• Matamoros
• Matamoros: registration flags / Banderas de matrícula
  • 1858-1888 (?)
  • Ca. 1923-?
  See:
  • Mexico - Registration flags
  • Tamaulipas
  • Mexico
  See also:
  • Official web page of Tamaulipas
  • Official web page of Matamoros
    Quoted by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán October 9, 2001

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  Matamoros

  City in NE of Mexico (Tamaulipas), located in the Mex-Usa border over the Bravo River shore. Agricultural and industrial and commercial center (about 30% of the Mexican-United States of America trade is took place in Matamoros). Its population is about 303,000 inhabitants. Its main industries are chemical, electronics, textile (cotton).

  Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 06, 2001.

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  Matamoros: registration flags
  Banderas de matrícula

  Ca. 1858-1888(?)

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  by Ivan Sache, Dec 19, 2001.

  Matamoros (Departamento del Golfo) - Per bend divided blue-red.
  Ivan Sache, Dec 19, 2001

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  Ca. 1923-?

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  by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 06, 2001.

  Matamoros, Tamaulipas was part of the Departamento del Golfo. The registration flag used about 1923 was really similar to that of Lobos, Veracruz-Llave, but the colors are inverted: white in the hoist, red in fly and a red square in the canton.
  Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 06, 2001.