Map of Henares Area © Mark Wade

Also Campo Taranz. Probably what is now a flat shrubland between Luzon and Medinaceli; in the Cid's time, covered with thickets of trees.

Some have identified this with modern Tarancon, but this is far to the south, west of Cuenca, and does not fit the geography in the poem.

After the end of the Cid’s campaign along the Henares against the Moorish towns under the protection of the Moorish King of Toledo, he moved on via Torancio to what historians consider his second campaign, along the Jalon. Historians believe these were under the protection of the Moorish King of Saragossa (the poet believes them to be under the protection of the Moorish King of Valencia). There is no independent historical evidence for this second campaign.

• Book IV Chapter III:

  Then my Cid and his company went up the Henares as fast as they could go, and they passed by the Alcarias, and by the caves of Anquita, and through the waters, and they entered the plain of Torancio, and halted between Fariza and Cetina: great were the spoils which they collected as they went along.

• Book VII Chapter XVI:

  On the morrow they went to horse: they crossed the mountains which are great and wild, and they passed Mata de Toranz without fear, and they thought to come through the valley of Arbuxedo.

• Book VII Chapter XVI:

  They left Medina and past the river Salon, and pricked up Arbuxuelo, and they crost the plain of Torancio.