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Edinburg

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Edinburg

Town and administrative headquarters of Hidalgo County, southern Texas; population (1990) 29,800. It is located 80 km/50 mi northwest of Brownsville, in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. It is a shipping centre for the region's citrus fruit crops. Part of an urban complex with Pharr and McAllen, Edinburg benefits from nearby oil and natural gas fields. It was founded in 1907 as Chapin, and was renamed Edinburg in 1911; the town initially developed as a cotton growing centre. It is home to the University of Texas: Pan American (1927) and the Tropical Texas Center for Mental Health and Mental Retardation (1967).


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