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Los Indios is a U.S. border town in southwestern Cameron County, off U.S. Highway 281 about eight miles south of Harlingen.

The Los Indios area was first settled in the late eighteenth century by Eugenio and Bartolome Fernandez, who received it from Spain in 1789 as part of the Concepcion de Carricitos land grant.

Los Indios is generally believed to have been named for a ranch established by the Spanish in the eighteenth century.

Los Indios got its start as a town in 1913, when a shipping point and a post office were established there following construction of the San Benito and Rio Grande Valley Railway.

The Free Trade International Bridge at Los Indios opened in 1992 and connects the town with Matamoros, Tamaulipas, across the Rio Grande.

The Los Indios Port of Entry handles both passenger vehicles and commercial trucks, recording about 750,000 cars and 42,580 trucks in 2005, and for many years Los Indios was the sole port of entry for transmigrantes transporting goods from the United States to Latin America.

Los Indios was incorporated in 1995, making it the most recently incorporated town in Cameron County as of early 2025.

The 2020 census counted 1,008 residents in Los Indios, living in 232 households, and the town covers about 1.7 square miles.

Los Indios is overwhelmingly Hispanic or Latino, at about 98 percent of the population in recent Census Bureau survey figures, and it forms part of the Brownsville-Harlingen metropolitan area.

The Los Indios Independent School District was consolidated with the San Benito Independent School District back in 1955.