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| City | Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas |
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| Broadcast area | Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas Laredo, Texas |
| Branding | La Rancherita |
| Frequency | 1550 AM 101.9 FM (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | July 19, 1957 (concession) |
| Format | Regional Mexican |
| Power | Day: 5 kWs Night: 250 watts |
| ERP | 3,000 watts |
| Class | B (AM), A (FM) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 27°29′37″N99°30′56″W / 27.4935327°N 99.515622°W Coordinates: 27°29′37″N99°30′56″W / 27.4935327°N 99.515622°W |
| Callsign meaning | NUevo Laredo |
| Owner | Grupo AS (Publicidad Unida del Norte, S.A. de C.V.) |
| Webcast | XENU |
XENU-AM (branded as La Rancherita) is a Mexican Regional Music format AM station that serves the Laredo, Texas, United States and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico border area. [1]
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2,000,000 square kilometres (770,000 sq mi), the nation is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent state in the world. With an estimated population of over 120 million people, the country is the eleventh most populous state and the most populous Spanish-speaking state in the world, while being the second most populous nation in Latin America after Brazil. Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and Mexico City, a special federal entity that is also the capital city and its most populous city. Other metropolises in the state include Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Tijuana and León.
Laredo is the county seat of Webb County, Texas, United States, on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. According to the 2010 census, the city population was 236,091, making it the tenth-most populous city in the state of Texas and third-most populated on the Mexico–United States border, after San Diego, California, and El Paso, Texas. Its metropolitan area is the 178th-largest in the U.S. and includes all of Webb County, with a population of 250,304. Laredo is also part of the cross-border Laredo-Nuevo Laredo Metropolitan Area with an estimated population of 636,516.
