Place · region

Tamaulipas

Tamaulipas is a state of north-eastern Mexico on the Gulf of Mexico, bordering Texas along the Rio Grande, with Ciudad Victoria as its capital. Colonised from 1748 as the Spanish province of Nuevo Santander, it became a state of independent Mexico in 1824. Its southern part lies in the Huasteca.

Tamaulipas
Image: panza.rayada · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 3 state histories

Huastec chiefdomsNuevo SantanderRepublic of the Rio Grande

See also

Cite this entry
APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Tamaulipas. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tamaulipas
MLA
“Tamaulipas.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tamaulipas. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Tamaulipas.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tamaulipas.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Tamaulipas’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tamaulipas (Accessed: ).

Last reviewed October 2026Random entry ↻