Torreón
Torreón on the map of Coahuila
Torreón is a city founded in 1893 in the Mexican state of Coahuila and is located 1000 km north of Mexico City. The city is 1122 meters high and its inhabitants number is 608 836 people (as of 2010)
Christ Statue
Geography
The cities of Torreón, Gómez Palacio and Lerdo Ciudad lie in La Laguna ( " lagoon " ) or Comarca Lagunera said basin, which is characterized by a large has always been economic activity. The name La Laguna derives from two former, however, now dried up lagoons: the lagoon of Mayran and the lagoon of Viesca.
Climate
History
Due to the flourishing cotton cultivation here to Torreón developed soon after its inception to an economic center. The fact that the city was also an important railway junction, to all vessels in the north and the south of Mexico trains had to happen, made them extremely valuable in military terms. Therefore, fought during the Mexican Revolution, the Mexican government controlled by the respective federal troops, the federales, hard with the revolutionary armies fighting for the possession of the city. Three times (1913, 1914 and 1916), for example, succeeded the Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa taking Torreón.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Bernard Francis Law, archbishop emeritus of Boston and current Archpriest of the Roman basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore