Known as the highway of death before and certainly after the war, Carretera 101, officially in English the Mexican Federal Highway 101 is the long strip of road running from Tula in the Distrito Capital through Ciudad Victoria, The Papal States, San Fernando and Valle Hermoso of Cattle Country and all the way up to Matamoros in the Border Country of Tamaulipas. Among Tamaulipas' most traveled roads, it is a shot from the north to the south of the state and a road traveled by many an honest and dishonest man.