Laredo, Texas

Laredo is a city in Webb County in South Texas, on the northern bank of the Rio Grande directly across from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. It was founded in 1755 as Villa de San Agustin de Laredo by the Spanish colonist Tomas Sanchez and briefly served as the capital of the short lived Republic of the Rio Grande in 1840. With a population of 255,205 at the 2020 census, Laredo is the eleventh most populous city in Texas and functions as the largest inland port on the Mexican border, with more than 47 percent of all United States trade with Mexico passing through its crossing by land, rail and air. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/