The City of Madero is located on the southern part of the state with an extension of 46.6 square kilometers, it is made up only of the city of Madero. To the south it borders the state of Veracruz, being divided only by the Pánuco River that flows into the Gulf of Mexico, which is located on the east side of the city. Altamira is located to the north and to the west the city of Tampico, forming all three cities a metropolitan area.

History

Madero's origin goes back to its first founder Cecilia Villarreal, who arrived here in 1807. Twenty years before the founding of Tampico, when she arrived the land was selvatic (jungle) and little by little, people came to live here. Afterwards the place where the first founder lived, was named Doña Cecilia's Pass, since goods and people crossed to and from there to the other side of the Pánuco River, becoming an important link between the states of Tamaulipas and Veracruz. At first Mrs. Cecilia's house became a hotel for travelers, later it became an entertainment center and in 1829 it stood through the cruel combats between the mexican and spanish army.

The city of Madero originally as a village was named Villa Cecilia in 1921 when the oil refinery of Árbol Grande went under construction, and later opened on May 1, 1924. In 1930 it became a city named Madero in honor of the late mexican president Francisco I. Madero.