Matamoros

municipal seat of Matamoros, State of Tamaulipas, Mexico
City locality_of_mexico Q738353

Facts

18 properties
Inception
1774[12]
Country
Mexico[3]
Official website
www.matamoros.gob.mx[14]
Elevation above sea level
+9[24]
Local dialing code
868[11]
Located in or next to body of water
Rio Grande[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Matamoros Municipality[2]
Native label
Matamoros[21]
Official name
Matamoros[20]
Population
511k (450k–542k, n=3)[15][16][17]
Postal code
87300[9]
Twinned administrative body
Brownsville, Xalapa, Victoria de Durango[6][7][8]
🏷️ Also known as
en Heroica Matamoros en Matamoros ar ماتاموروس el Ματαμόρος en-gb Heroica Matamoros es Matamoros es Matamoros Tamaulipas he מטמורוס hi मातामोरोस it Heroica Matamoros ja マタモロス ko 마타모로스 pt Matamoros ru Матаморос ru Эройка-Матаморос sv Heroica Matamoros th มาทาร์โมรอส uk Еройка-Матаморос zh 馬塔莫羅斯 zh-hans 马塔莫罗斯
🔖 Identifiers · 26
VIAF cluster ID
145144648537774718529
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Matamoros Portada.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
52889
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
123566510
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Matamoros-Tamaulipas-state-Mexico
Freebase ID
/m/01byl2
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1682782
GeoNames ID
3523466
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Matamoros
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2191846
INEGI locality ID
280220001
Show all 26 identifiers +14
Interlingual Index ID
i82834
Lex ID
Matamoros
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007489436605171
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3938527
OpenStreetMap node ID
296889512
Quora topic ID
Matamoros-Mexico
Topic's main category
Category:Matamoros, Tamaulipas
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10037334
UN/LOCODE
MXMAM
Who's on First ID
102000961
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
08761619-n

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Different from 4
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Contained subdivisions 3
Instance of 3
Twinned administrative body 3
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← Headquarters location 2
Capital of 1
Category of associated people 1
Country 1
Described by source 1
Located in or next to body of water 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Located in time zone 1
Part of 1
SNARC ID 1
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Summary

Matamoros is a locality of Mexico[1].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.

served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Located in the administrative territorial entity Tamaulipas high0.93confirmed6 independent sources

evidence “The vehicle was driven by a 39-year-old Mexican citizen who lives in Matamoros, Tamaulipas.” fox4news.com · read source

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → municipal seat of Matamoros, State of Tamaulipas, Mexico
    Population → {'amount': '+541979'}, {'amount': '+449815'}, {'amount': '+510739'}
    Image → Matamoros Portada.jpg
    Coordinate location → {'latitude': 25.85, 'longitude': -97.50416666666666}
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/52657|batch #52657]]: Mexico localities"
  2. 22w ago · AntoFran · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bibliothèque nationale de France ID → 123566510
    Twinned administrative body → —
    Official name → —
    Quora topic → —
    + 99 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Instance of: big city"
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