Where to Stay in Torreón, Estado de Coahuila de Zaragoza

What is Torreón known for?

On the Nazas river in the desert north of Mexico, it grew from a railway junction into the great city of the cotton country, and it keeps the towering Christ of Las Noas on its hill, the cotton and dairy trade of the Laguna plain, the busy railways that made it, and the museums and gardens of a young and modern city. The dry plain spreads all around. Cotton fields fringe the town.

What are the main landmarks in Torreón?

The Christ of Las Noas is the pride of Torreón. The great white statue on the Cerro de las Noas, arms spread above the whole city, is the emblem of the town, downtown. A young city holds fine museums.

The museums of the revolution and the region fill the streets below, while the old railways, the Nazas river, and the cotton plain mark the country around Torreón.

What is the history of Torreón?

Torreón is a child of the railway. Where the great railways crossed the Nazas in the desert, a station and a town sprang up, and in nineteen hundred and seven Torreón was made a city, one of the youngest in Mexico. The cotton made it rich.

The Nazas watered vast fields of cotton on the Laguna plain, and Torreón grew fast as the trading city of the cotton country, its mills and railyards busy day and night. Revolution swept the young city. In the great war of the revolution, Pancho Villa and his Division of the North fought hard for Torreón, and the city changed hands in fierce battles on the plain.

The city rose again and grew. Peace brought back the cotton and the trade, and Torreón spread into the largest city of the Laguna, joined to Gómez Palacio and Lerdo across the river, keeping its railways, its cotton, and its hilltop Christ. The great Christ still watches from the hill.

Torreón keeps its desert city on the Nazas.

Where is Torreón?

Torreón lies in the southwest of Coahuila in northern Mexico, on the Nazas river in the desert. The city sits on a dry plain ringed by bare brown hills, in the oasis of the Comarca Lagunera where the Nazas waters the fields, with Gómez Palacio and Lerdo across the river in Durango and the desert stretching away on every side. The river runs dry half the year.

Bare hills ring the plain.

What is the climate of Torreón?

Torreón has a hot, dry desert climate. Blazing summers and mild winters cross the plain, with fierce heat and dust in the summer and cool clear days in the winter months. Fierce heat grips the summer plain.

Winter days turn mild and clear.

How do you get to Torreón?

Torreón lies in the Laguna of northern Mexico, on the highways and rail across the desert. The old railways still cross it, and highways run north to Chihuahua and southeast to Saltillo and Monterrey. Rail lines cross the plain.

Monterrey lies far to the east.