A city in southern Texas on the Mexican border, or a city in northern Mexico across the Rio Grande.
Spanish, possibly derived from 'Laredo' in Cantabria, Spain, or from the Spanish word meaning 'sandy area'. The city was named by Spanish colonists in the 18th century, maintaining the connection to Spanish geographical terminology.
Laredo represents one of the most fascinating examples of a binational metropolitan area, where two cities with the same name (Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico) function as essentially one economic and cultural unit despite being in different countries. The Rio Grande divides them physically but cannot separate their intertwined histories.
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