Hi my name is Daniel Morones rodriguez and I live in Torreon Coahuila and I make this blog

because I would like to inform you about the history of Torreon since in my opinion it is interesting,
not much but it is a bit interesting

The name of the city of Torreón is in reference to a construction in which there was a tower that was
used for lookouts, built in 1850 by Pedro Santa Cruz next to the Carrizal Dam.

The first tribes of the region settled more than 12,000 years ago in the vicinity of the Nazas and
Aguanaval rivers. Among these tribes, it is worth highlighting the Paoquis, Caviseres, Ahomanes,
Nauopas, Irritilas, the latter also called laguneros, etc. They are part of a massive wave from
northern Mexico, such as the Coahuiltecos and Tamaulipas, conchos, tobosos and the Zacatecos
and Guachichiles lagoons. Their characteristics were typical of their adaptation to the desert climate
and their customs, religious rites and their warrior style were similar to each other.

Spanish exploration began in 1531 with the expedition of Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán. In the following
decades, especially under the leadership of Francisco de Ibarra, settlements were founded further
inside the territory and even further north of the city of Zacatecas, when silver deposits were
discovered. Ibarra named this new area as Nueva Vizcaya in honor of his homeland Vizcaya (one of
the historic territories of the Basque Country). Nueva Vizcaya included the modern Mexican states of
Chihuahua and Durango, as well as areas of eastern Sonora and Sinaloa, and southwestern
Coahuila.1 The region fell under the judicial jurisdiction of the Real Audiencia de Guadalajara, as
well as its administration. As part of the Bourbon Reforms, in 1777 the northern provinces of the
Viceroyalty were organized into the General Command of the Internal Provinces, which was an
autonomous entity of the Viceroyalty in military and administrative matters, but financially supported
by it. The first expeditions to this area were carried out by the religious Fray Pedro Espinareda in the
year 1566, Francisco Cano in 1568, Martín López de Ibarra in 1569, and Alberto del Cano in 1577
who toured the southern regions of Coahuila even seizing some of them in the name of the Spanish
king, thus founding the Nueva Vizcaya that was constituted by the south of Coahuila and a large part
of Chihuahua and Durango. Nueva Vizcaya was in charge of a governor established in Durango,
who depended on the viceroy of New Spain in terms of finance and war activities. In 1796, the name
of the kingdom was suppressed and a command of internal provinces was established, in which the
lagoon region became part of San Luis Potosí.