Reynosa is a primarily industrial city in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Reynosa is located at 26.08° N 98.28° W, across the Rio Grande (Río Bravo) from McAllen in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2003 the population of Reynosa was estimated at around 450,000 people. The argriculture that grows there include cotton, sugarcane and fruit. The United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos or Mexico) comprises 31 states (estados) and one federal district (Distrito Federal), which contains the capital, Mexico City. ... Tamaulipas is a state in the northeast of Mexico. ... The Rio Grande flowing in Big Bend National Park Known as the Rio Grande in the United States and as the Río Bravo (or, more formally, the Río Bravo del Norte) in Mexico, the river, 3034 km long, rises in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, USA, flows... McAllen is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. ... A U.S. state is any one of the fifty states (four of which officially favor the term commonwealth) which, together with the District of Columbia and Palmyra Atoll (an uninhabited incorporated unorganized territory), form the United States of America. ... ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Picking cotton in Georgia Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New World. ... Species Saccharum arundinaceum Saccharum bengalense Saccharum edule Saccharum officinarum Saccharum procerum Saccharum ravennae Saccharum robustum Saccharum sinense Saccharum spontaneum Sugar cane Saccharum officinarum at Kew Gardens, London Sugarcane or Sugar cane (Saccharum) is a genus of between 6–37 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation) of tall grasses (family Poaceae, tribe... Fruit stall in Barcelona, Catalonia. ...

The metropolitan section of Reynosa is home to many maquiladoras, whose products are distributed internationally. Many companies around the world have focused on the Reynosa and McAllen, Texas area because of the opportunity for trade. Reynosa is connected to McAllen by two bridges - McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge and the Pharr International Bridge. A third one, Anzalduas Bridge, will soon be completed. These bridges are to faciliate international trade. When the word metropolitan (from the Greek metera = mother and polis = town) is used as an adjective, as in metropolitan bishop, metropolitan France, or metropolitan area it can mean: of or characteristic of a metropolis; see also metropolitan area, Metropolitan Police, Metropolitan Railway of or belonging to the home territories... A maquiladora (or maquila) is a factory, the majority of which are located in Mexican border towns, that imports materials and equipment on a duty- and tariff-free basis for assembly or manufacturing. ...

External links

• Newspaper El mañana
• Reynosa, Mexico/McAllen,Texas