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Matamoros Municipality, Tamaulipas

municipality in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ2450458 ↗
Source-derived summary

Matamoros is a municipality located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Its municipal seat is the city of Matamoros.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Matamoros Municipality, Tamaulipas” as municipality in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Matamoros, Municipality and Tamaulipas.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 19-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Matamoros, Municipality and Tamaulipas providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Matamoros Municipality, Tamaulipas”, the useful work is to connect “municipality in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2450458. VIAF identifies the subject as 144318876. The Library of Congress control number is n85266162. Authority coordinates are 25.550, -97.533. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Matamoros Municipality, Tamaulipas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.