Tampico (disambiguation)

Tampico is a city and port in Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Tampico may also refer to:

Places

Arts, entertainment, and media

Brands and enterprises

Education
  • Educación Profesional de Tampico, AC (Tampico's Professional Education or Autonomous University of Tamaulipas), a Mexican public university
  • Instituto Cultural Tampico (ICT, a K-12 private school founded in 1962 by the Society of Jesus in the city of Tampico, Mexico
  • Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Tampico, in Mexico
  • Tampico High School also known Prophetstown High School, serves the Prophetstown-Lyndon-Tampico Community Unit School District 3, for the communities of Prophetstown, Lyndon, Tampico, Deer Grove, and Yorktown
  • The American School of Tampico, an elementary, middle and high school in Tampico, Mexico

Military
  • Tampico, a Mexican Navy gunboat involved in the First Battle of Topolobampo on March 4, 1914, during the Mexican Revolution
  • Battle of Tampico (1829), the port town was seized by 3,000 Spanish troops from Havana during the Spanish attempts to reconquer Mexico
  • Battle of Tampico (1839) or "Siege of Tampico", a siege that lasted from 26 May until 4 June 1839 during the Mexican Federalist War
  • Battle of Tampico (1863), was a victory for the Republicans on 19 January during the French intervention in Mexico
  • Tampico Affair (1914), an incident involving U.S. sailors and Mexican land forces loyal to Mexican dictator General Victoriano Huerta
  • Tampico Expedition (1835), an expedition for the purpose of supporting Federalist opposition to the Centralist government of Mexico, which involved the "Battle of Tampico" fought November 15, 1835, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas

Religion
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Tampico
  • Tampico Amish Mennonites, a Plain, car-driving branch of the Amish Mennonites also known as "Kauffman Amish Mennonites", "Sleeping Preacher Churches", or "Tampico Amish Mennonite Churches"
  • Tampico Cathedral, a Roman Catholic Church also known as Immaculate Conception Cathedral(Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción or Catedral de Tampico costado Oriente, in Tampico, Mexico
  • Tampico Mexico Temple, located in Ciudad Madero, part of the Tampico conurbation

Sports

Other uses
  • 1933 Tampico hurricane, a Category 5 hurricane
  • Istle, or Tampico, a type of hard plant fiber obtained from a number of Mexican plants used in the manufacture of brushes, cords, and ropes
  • TB-9 Tampico GT, one of the models of the Socata TB series of aircraft
  • Tampico fiber from northern mexico, used to make bristles on brushes, ropes, and other uses.
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