Torreón (mex)

Torreón

Torreón ranks 2,246th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Étampes, Mantes-la-Jolie, and Tomsk. Memorable people born in Torreón include Demián Bichir, Carmen Salinas, and Bernard Francis Law. Torreón has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors. Torreón is located in Mexico.

Torreón is a city and seat of Torreón Municipality in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2021, the city's population was 735,340. The metropolitan population as of 2015 was 1,497,734, making it the ninth-biggest metropolitan area in the country and the largest metropolitan area in the state of Coahuila, as well as one of Mexico's most important economic and industrial centers. The cities of Torreón; Gómez Palacio, Durango; Lerdo, Durango; Matamoros; Francisco I. Madero; San Pedro; Bermejillo, Durango; and Tlahualilo, Durango form the area of La Laguna or the Comarca Lagunera, a basin within the Chihuahuan Desert. Read more on Wikipedia