adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe someone or something as compassionate, you mean that they feel or show pity, sympathy, and understanding for people who are suffering. My father was a deeply compassionate man. American English: compassionate
Matamoros is a city in Tamaulipas in Mexico. Matamoros is situated on the United States-Mexico border across the Rio Grande River from the city of Brownsville, near where the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico. It is one of several major land crossings between the United States and Mexico.
Brownsville served as a site for several battles and events in the Texas Revolution, the MexicanâAmerican War, and the American Civil War. Right across the U.SâMexico border lies Matamoros, Tamaulipas, a city with a population of 500,000 people and a major site of the Mexican War of Independence, the Mexican Revolution, and the French Intervention.