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At the beginnings of 1800, the salt mines boost the economic development of the region and the maritime trade. For this reason, the inhabitants of Altamira saw the need for a new Customs Office and negotiated with the authorities the ideal place for it. In 1823, the approval to found the city of Tampico is granted with the name of Santa Anna de Tamaulipas, name that was changed to Tampico de Santa Anna. A year later, on November 12th of 1824, it is upgraded to Sea Port, beginning a great era for this city and the whole country due to the commercial activity generated with the arrival and departure of ships loaded with merchandise and other activities derived from its trade.
The first ships to arrive to the new port were the “Elisa”, the “Francisca” and another which name is unknown. Afterwards, the port received a great number of merchant ships that carried a wide variety of products and minerals, mainly silver to New Orleans and England. Tampico was home then of a cosmopolitan population. Here, you could find perfumes and fashion articles, fine textiles like silk and porcelains. It is with Don Porfírio Díaz when Tampico reaches its maximum growth and development, who made the decision to build a new one after the fire that destroyed the first Custom Building as well as a port alongside the Pánuco River. To head this important task he brought from Europe expert technicians that after several months of studies reached a solution for the best place to build the port. According to several historians, given to the waste that accumulated alongside the left river margins, the best place for its construction was on the right side of the river on land belonging to the State of Veracruz. It was then that the intervention of Porfírio Díaz and his wife Doña Carmen Romero Rubio y Castelló, who was born in the State of Tamaulipas, that the decision to ignore that recommendation was taken and build the port of the left river margin on land belonging to Tampico. In 1863, the Compañía Central Mexicana started building the first railroad track from San Luis Potosí to Tampico. It was followed by the construction of several infrastructure works like the breakwaters also known as “escolleras” and the works to increase the depth of the navigation channel that started in 1890 improving the sea trade giving the navigation channel a depth of 28 feet.
The works of the port infrastructure started at the end of the XIX Century. First, large pylons were sunk in the river bed to support the docks. Several lifts and other heavy equipment were acquired and were later used for the loading and unloading of cargo off the merchant ships. The depth of the access channel was increased to allow for ships of large tonnage. For the Customs Building, Don Porfírio requested by catalog the blueprints for Maritime Customs Building, pride of the people of Tampico. Its construction started in 1896 with an initial cost of $1.85 million pesos in gold and was inaugurated by the President along with the rest of the port works. The increased activity of the port brought along several construction and remodeling works, among them, the construction of three warehouses and four docks, each of 145 meters long that were concluded by 1903. About this time the oil boom started which brought an increase in trade in the region. From then on, even with several economic downturns that our country has suffered, the Port of Tampico had had a positive development and is today and important gate for foreign trade.
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The House of Castilla
The Breakwaters and the Channel for Navigation
History of the
Indpendence Movement in Nuevo Santander
Tampico, victim of Pirates, Bucaneers, and Privateers
León Trotsky in Tampico
New Street Names
Tampico Wakeboard City
Tajín Summit León Trotsky in Tampico
New Street Names
Tampico Wakeboard City
Tajín Summit
Convention Center
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