page_title: McAllen, Texas
section_title: Architecture and points of interest
hierarchical_section_title: McAllen, Texas / Architecture and points of interest
caption_attribution_description: English: McAllen Skyline
context_page_description: McAllen is the largest city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States, and the 22nd-most populous city in Texas. It is located at the southern tip of the state in the Rio Grande Valley, close to the country of Mexico. The city limits extend south to the Rio Grande, across from the Mexican city of Reynosa. McAllen is about 70 mi west of the Gulf of Mexico. As of 2019, McAllen's population was estimated to be 143,268. It is the fifth-most populous metropolitan area in the state of Texas, and the binational Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan area counts a population of nearly 1.52 million.
  From its settlement in 1904, the area around McAllen was largely rural and agricultural in character, but the latter half of the 20th century had steady growth, which has continued in the 21st century in the metropolitan area. The introduction of the maquiladora economy and the North American Free Trade Association led to an increase in cross-border trading with Mexico.
context_section_description: Tallest buildings
  Districts
  Downtown McAllen
  De Palmas Historic District
  17 Street Entertainment District
  McAllen Arts District
  Uptown McAllen
  McAllen Convention Center District
  Points of Interest
  McAllen Botanical Gardens
  Quinta Mazatlan
  McAllen Convention Center
  La Plaza Mall
  International Museum of Art and Science
  Historic Cine El Rey Theatre
caption: McAllen skyline. On far right is the Chase Neuhaus Tower in Downtown.
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