Brownsville
Brownsville is a city in the U.S.
Brownsville is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the largest city and county seat of Cameron County, located on the western Gulf Coast in South Texas, adjacent to the border with Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The city covers 145.2 sq mi (376.066 km2), and had a population of 186,738 at the 2020 census. As of the 2020 U.S. census, it is the 136th-most populous city in the United States and 18th-most populous in Texas. It is part of the Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan area. The city is known for its year-round subtropical climate, deep-water seaport, and Hispanic culture.
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Worth seeing in and around Brownsville
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Roman Catholic Diocese of Matamoros
The Diocese of Matamoros-Reynosa is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the northeast part of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, along the border with Texas, United States. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Monterrey.
5.9 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in Mexico · Wikipedia - 02Diocese of Brownsville
The Diocese of Brownsville, erected in 1965, is a diocese in southeastern Texas in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.
0 m · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 03Our Lady of Refuge Cathedral, Matamoros
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Refuge, also known as the Matamoros Cathedral, is the main Catholic church in the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. It is the seat of the Diocese of Matamoros-Reynosa.
5.9 km · church in Matamoros, Mexico · Wikipedia - 04University of Texas at Brownsville
The University of Texas at Brownsville was an educational institution located in Brownsville, Texas. The university was on the land once occupied by Fort Brown.
3.5 km · defunct university · Wikipedia - 05Gateway International Bridge
Gateway International Bridge is one of three international bridges that cross the U.S.-Mexico border between the cities of Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas. It is owned and operated by Cameron County.
3.8 km · bridge in Brownsville, Texas · Wikipedia - 06Texas Southmost College
Texas Southmost College is a public junior college located in Brownsville, Texas, United States.
3.6 km · community college in Brownsville, US · Wikipedia - 07Museo del Agrarismo Mexicano
The Museum of Mexican Agrarianism is an free admission establishment of the Instituto Matamorense para la Cultura y las Artes dedicated to the history of agrarianism and land reform in Mexico. It is located on the Ejido Lucio Blanco, Heroica Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and was founded on 10 April 2002.
9.7 km · Mexican Agrarianism Museum · Wikipedia - 08United States Court House, Custom House, and Post Office
The former United States Court House, Custom House, and Post Office in Brownsville, Texas, also known as the Old Federal Courthouse, is a former courthouse of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and currently serves as Brownsville City Hall. Completed in 1931, the building replaced the 1892 U.S. Court House, Custom House, and Post Office of that city, which was razed in 1931.
3.4 km · building in Brownsville, Texas, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Brownsville
- Airports
- Monterrey (MTY), 263 km
- Stations
- Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport, 6.4 km · Port of Brownsville, 7.7 km
- Houston → Brownsville478 km · quickest by road, 8h 24m · $45–60
- San Antonio → Brownsville404 km · quickest by road, 6h 10m · $36–49
- Austin → Brownsville486 km · quickest by road, 7h 52m · $45–60
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Brownsville
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Brownsville. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThough there are no ferries to take you to the island, if you own a boat, simply direct yourself to the southernmost Texas coast.
From Wikivoyage: Brownsville (Texas), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Brownsville
Brownsville is 6 km from Heroica Matamoros, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan areahuman settlement in Brownsville, Texas, United States of America6 km
- 4th federal electoral district of Tamaulipasfederal electoral district of Mexico7.2 km