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1300 Houston Avenue McAllen, Texas 78501
Phone : 956-681-1000 |
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| McAllen is the largest city in Hidalgo
County, and the 22nd-most populous city in Texas. It is located
at the southern tip of the state in the Rio Grande Valley, on
the Mexico–United States border. The city limits extend south to
the Rio Grande, across from the Mexican city of Reynosa. McAllen
is about 70 mi west of the Gulf of Mexico. As of the 2020
census, McAllen's population was 142,210. It is the fifth-most
populous metropolitan area (McAllen–Edinburg–Mission) in the
state of Texas, and the binational Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan
area counts a population of more than 1.5 million. |
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| From its settlement in 1904, the area around
McAllen was largely rural and agricultural in character, but the
latter half of the 20th century had steady growth, which has
continued in the 21st century in the metropolitan area. The
introduction of the maquiladora economy and the North American
Free Trade Association led to an increase in cross-border
trading with Mexico. |
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