Matamoros

Matamoros, a river-port of Mexico, lies opposite Brownsville, Texas, on the south bank of the Rio Grande, 40 miles from its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. With the other Mexican towns on the river it has formed a free-trade league since 1861. The Rio Grande is navigable for small vessels as far as Reynosa, and a railway from Matamoros extends beyond this point to San Miguel (75 miles). Pop. 13,740.—Another Matamoros is in the Mexican state Puebla, 4160 feet above sea-level. It has coal-mines and a pop. of 13,408.