Torreón is one of the
municipalities of Coahuila de Zaragoza, a state in north-eastern
Mexico
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. The city of
Torreón
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 ...
is the municipal seat for Torreón Municipality. The
municipality
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covers an area of 1947.7 km².
As of 2010, the
municipality
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had a total population of 639,629.
[INEGI, "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2010:
Torreón, Coahuila de Zaragoza," http://www3.inegi.org.mx/sistemas/mexicocifras/default.aspx?src=487&e=5, accessed November 6, 2014.]
References
Municipalities of Coahuila
Torreón
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