Matagalpa
capital of the Matagalpa department, Nicaragua, 12 miles MATÉ Havana. Following American intervention, Matanzas greatly increased in prosperity. It is the third city in Cuba in population. On April 27, 1898, the forts protecting Matanzas harbor were shelled and destroyed by the United SKELETON OF MASTODON S. E. of Jinotega. On elevated plateau, in fertile agricultural region, has a large trade in coffee and tobacco. Pop. about 17,500.
MATAMOROS (mä-tä-mō'rōs), a port of Mexico, opposite Brownsville, Tex., on the Rio Grande, 40 miles from its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. With the other Mexican towns on the river it has formed a free-trade league since 1861. The Rio Grande is navigable for small vessels as far as Reynosa, and a railway from Matamoros extends beyond this point to San Miguel (75 miles). Pop. (1920) about 10,000. Another Matamoros is in the Mexican state of Puebla, 4,100 feet above sea-level. It has coal mines.