{"id":44265,"count":1,"description":"Torre\u00f3n is a city and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2010, the city's population was 608,836 with 639,629 in the municipality. The metropolitan population, including Matamoros, Coahuila, and G\u00f3mez Palacio and Lerdo in adjacent Durango, was 1,215,993. It is the ninth-biggest metropolitan area in the country and is one of Mexico's most important economic and industrial centers. Torre\u00f3n is served by Francisco Sarabia International Airport, a small airport with flights to several cities in Mexico and the United States.\nAccording to archaeological findings, the area of Torre\u00f3n was populated around the 10th millennium BC.\nThe first Spanish mission arrived in 1566, led by Fr. Pedro Espinareda. However, the city developed only in the independent Mexican era, around a Torre\u00f3n (\"Big Tower\") built to monitor R\u00edo Nazas's floods, in conjunction with the creation of a railroad connecting to the US border. The population grew from 200 in...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/torreon\/","name":"Torreon","slug":"torreon","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/44265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=44265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}