Padilla Municipality is a municipality in the

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state of

Tamaulipas Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in the northeast region of Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entiti ...

. After the flood at the Vicente Guerrero Dam in 1970, the seat was moved from Padilla to the town of Nuevo Padilla. Padilla is known for being the place where the Mexican liberator and Emperor

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was executed by a firing squad. It is also the place where

Manuel de Mier y Terán José Manuel Rafael Simeón de Mier y Terán (February 18, 1789 — July 3, 1832), generally known as Manuel de Mier y Terán, was a noted military and political figure during the Mexican War of Independence and during the era of the First Repu ...

, a Mexican general, took his life with a sword. The town was established on 6 January 1749 by José de Escandón, then a Spanish Indian-fighter in

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and the founder and first governor of the colony of

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. The town was named after Maria Padilla, the wife of Juan Francisco de Güemes, the viceroy of New Spain. At the time of its establishment, more than 40 people from Hidalgo, Linares, and Río Blanco resided in the area. As of 2010, the municipality of Padilla has a population of 14,020. The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) reported that a blackout that affected 12 states of the country and more than 10 million users on December 28,

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, was caused by a fire in of grasslands in Padilla. However, the Tamaulipas State Civil Protection Coordination rejected the document presented by the CFE, saying the document was falsified.

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Gobierno Municipal de Padilla
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