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.
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1. Laredo, Texas (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 255,205 (2020)
2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 27.75, -99.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 27.75, -99.75
27.75 -99.75 BSh
3. GeoNames: Laredo - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 4705349, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 4705349, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
27.50641 -99.50754 P PPLA2 US TX 479 256153 126 132 America/Chicago
Laredo, Texas (Wikipedia)
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Laredo (English pronunciation: /ləˈɹeɪdoʊ/ ; Spanish pronunciation: [laˈɾeðo] ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and largest city of Webb County, on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
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