It is located near the mouth of the Colorado River on the upper Texas coast in the United States.

Matagorda is at the end of State Highway 60 and the beginning of Farm to Market Road 2031, which runs over the Intracoastal Waterway and south to the Gulf of Mexico.

[4] It was established in 1827 when Stephen F. Austin obtained permission from the Mexican government to build a town to protect incoming settlers.

[5] Elias R. Wightman, one of Stephen F. Austin's early surveyors, traveled to Matagorda in 1829 with 60 immigrant settlers.

The name means "fat thicket" in Spanish [7] Matagorda first appeared as a census designated place in the 2010 U.S.