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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 98
Land area (2000): 14.589919 sq. miles (37.787716 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.589919 sq. miles (37.787716 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79070
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 35.783265 N, 107.210030 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Torreon
Wikipedia
Torreón is a city and seat of Torreón Municipality in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2010, the city's population was 608,836 with 639,629 in the municipality. The metropolitan population, including Matamoros Municipality, and Gómez Palacio Municipality and Lerdo Municipality in adjacent Durango, was 1,215,993. It is the ninth-biggest metropolitan area in the country and is one of Mexico's most important economic and industrial centers. Torreón is served by Francisco Sarabia International Airport, an airport with flights to several cities in Mexico and the United States.
Torreón is a city in the Mexican state of Coahuila. Torreon or or Torreón may also refer to:
- Torreón Municipality, Coahuila, Mexico
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico
- Torreón massacre, a racially motivated massacre in 1911 in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico
- Torreon, Sandoval County, New Mexico, USA, a rural census-designated place (CDP)
- Torreon, Torrance County, New Mexico, USA, a farming community and CDP
- Torreón de la Chorrera, a fortification in Havana, Cuba
- Torreón de Llanes, a medieval tower in Llanes, Asturias, Spain
- Torreón Airport, near Coelemu, Bío Bío, Chile
Usage examples of "torreon".
Leaphorn turned off the pavement onto the twenty-three miles of dirt road that goes directly to Torreon without the wide detour.
Continental Divide on Navajo Route 9 as Leaphorn was covering this side of theology, and now the Torreon ridge rose about six miles ahead, and beyond it Torreon arroyo and Torreon itself, with its chapter house and maybe, Leaphorn guessed, something like 150 residents scattered around the valley.
Chevy sedan were parked at the Torreon Chapter House, but the owner of one truck was leaving.
She took them to a side door and pointed eastward, toward the slopes of Torreon ridge.
Then on and on through The Mexicos, all through the Southwest, then back again in a great circle by Chihuahua and Aldama to Laredo, to Torreon, and Albuquerque.
At other times, it seemed as though it was somewhere in the third world: Guadalajara, perhaps, or Torreon, dusty and dirty and old.
I reached the last tree before the clearing that surrounded the main house, and got my first glimpse of the weapon that had crisped Torreon and his companion.
Now they were jolting down Navajo Road 7028 about fifteen miles west of the Torreon Trading Post, looking for a dirt road which would, if they could only find it, lead them across the south fork of Chico Arroyo and thence to the place of Gray Old Lady Benally, who was some sort of paternal clan relative of Delmar's.