title: Matamoros
text: # Matamoros
  
  Matamoros is a Spanish surname and place name meaning ‘Moor killer’. It may refer to:
  
  ## Events
  
  * 1999 Matamoros standoff, an armed engagement between gangsters and law enforcement in Matamoros, Tamaulipas
  * 2011 Matamoros mass kidnapping
  * 2023 Matamoros kidnappings
  
  ## Music
  
  * "Matamoros", a song by The Afghan Whigs from Do to the Beast
  * "Matamoros Banks", a song by Bruce Springsteen from Devils & Dust
  * Matamoros Querido, a 1971 album by Rigo Tovar
     * "Mi Matamoros Querido", a song on Matamoros Querido
  
  ## People
  
  * Carlos Matamoros Franco (born 1966), Ecuadorian chess grandmaster
  * Mariano Matamoros (1770–1814), a liberal priest and insurgent active during the Mexican War of Independence
  * Miguel Matamoros (1894–1971), a Cuban musician and composer
     * Trio Matamoros, Cuban trova group founded by Miguel Matamoros
  * Saint James Matamoros, 'the Moor-slayer', Spanish mythological figure
  
  ## Places
  
  * Matamoros, Coahuila, city in Mexico
  * Matamoros, Tamaulipas, also known as Heroica Matamoros, a city in Mexico, municipal seat of Matamoros Municipality, Tamaulipas
     * Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan area, transnational conurbation along the Mexico–U.S. border
     * Matamoros Cathedral
  * Matamoros Municipality, Chihuahua
  * Matamoros Municipality, Coahuila
  * Matamoros Municipality, Tamaulipas
  * General Mariano Matamoros Airport, of Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
  * Izúcar de Matamoros, city in the Mexican state of Puebla
  * Landa de Matamoros, city in the Mexican state of Querétaro
  * Mariano Matamoros, Chihuahua, town in Mexico
  * Tlacolula de Matamoros, city in the Mexican state of Oaxaca
  * Valle de Matamoros, municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
  