Nuevo Laredo
Nuevo Laredo is a city in the Municipality of Nuevo Laredo in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
The city lies on the banks of the Rio Grande, across from Laredo, Texas, United States. The 2010 census population of the city was 373,725. Nuevo Laredo is part of the Laredo-Nuevo Laredo Metropolitan Area with a population of 636,516. The municipality has an area of 1,334.02 km2 (515.07 sq mi). Nuevo Laredo is considered the “customs capital of Latin America” because of its high volume of international trade operations in the region, and number 1 in importance for US inland commercial traffic. Both the city and the municipality rank as the third largest in the state.
Getting to Nuevo Laredo
From Mexico: Mexican Federal Highway 2 (Mex Dos) starts at the international dam at Lake Amistad near Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila and runs through Piedras Negras, Colombia (Nuevo Leon), Nuevo Laredo Reynosa, and ends near Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Mexican Federal Highway 85 starts in Nuevo Laredo and runs through Monterrey, Nuevo León, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosí, and Pachuca, Hidalgo.
- 01Quetzalcóatl International Airport
An international airport near the U.S.-Mexico border that handles national and international air traffic.
Worth seeing
There are plazas and monuments can be found throughout the city. Most visitors focus on shopping and strolling the streets of Vicente Guerrero and Ignacio Zaragoza. You may also see Los Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo (Mexican Professional Baseball League) game. You may also see a play or a Broadway-style show in the Centro Cultural.
Things to do
- 01Parque La Junta
Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (affectionately known as Tecos) bring AAA-level Mexican League Baseball to Nuevo Laredo from March through the end of August.
Where to eat
When you cross on Bridge 1 and go straight, you will be on Av. Guerrero, which is a main artery of the city. Several blocks over to the left, there is a hospital called IMSS. In front of this hospital, there are several hawkers set up in front of the hospital. All of them are pretty good (as of 2013). At Guerrero and Heroe de Nacataz, at night, there is a popular and established taco stand set up.
Getting around Nuevo Laredo the local way
- Go nextDay trips by car can take you to Zapata TX (less than 1 hour to the south) for hunting, fishing and nature observation/birding; and to Kingsville (less than two hours to the east) a ranching heritage town, and home of the King Ranch Museum .
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