A city in northern Mexico west of Monterrey

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.