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List Of Municipalities Of El Salvador
The municipalities of El Salvador, called ''municipios'', are 262 in total. Each one having its own capital and a variable number of cantons; these are conformed of caseríos. The quantity of municipalities in each of the 14 departments of El Salvador is the following: Ahuachapán Department # Ahuachapán # Apaneca # Atiquizaya # Concepción de Ataco # El Refugio # Guaymango # Jujutla # San Francisco Menéndez # San Lorenzo # San Pedro Puxtla # Tacuba # Turín Cabañas Department # Cinquera # Dolores # Guacotecti # Ilobasco # Jutiapa # San Isidro # Sensuntepeque # Tejutepeque # Victoria Chalatenango Department # Agua Caliente # Arcatao # Azacualpa # Chalatenango # Citalá # Comalapa # Concepción Quezaltepeque # Dulce Nombre de María # El Carrizal # El Paraíso # La Laguna # La Palma # La Reina # Las Vueltas # Nombre de Jesús # Nueva Concepción # Nueva Trinidad # Ojos de Agua # Potonico # San Antonio de la Cruz (San Antonio La Cruz) # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Salvador Municipalities
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Turín
Turín is a municipality in the Ahuachapán department of El Salvador. Geography The town is located 4 km west of Atiquizaya, 10 km east of Ahuachapán, the department capital; and 12 km west of Chalchuapa and the neighboring Maya archeological site of Tazumal. It is crossed by the national highway CA 13 and by the Santa Ana-Ahuachapán railway line. Notable people *Lilian Mercedes Letona Lilian Mercedes Letona (September 24, 1954 – August 1, 1983), was a El Salvador, Salvadoran guerrilla and Communism, communist revolutionary, member of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). Also known with her "nom de guerre" '' ... (''Commander Clelia'', 1954–1983), guerrilla and revolutionary, member of the FMLN References External links Municipalities of the Ahuachapán Department {{ElSalvador-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcatao
Arcatao is a municipality and small town in the Department of Chalatenango, El Salvador. Geography Arcatao is located 32 km east from Chalatenango at the border with the Republic of Honduras in a small valley between the mountains; La Cañada and Caracol. Rivers include the Sumpul River, Lempa River, Zazalapa River and the Guayampoque River. Its little villages are: Cerro Grande, Eramon, Las Vegas, Los Sitios, Teosinte and Los Filos. Demography Population: 800 inhabitants in 1992, 2,895 in 2004 and about 2,990 in 2007. Economy The principal source of income comes from the agricultural sector. With its temperate climate most of the year and the heavy rainfall during the winter season, the soil is rich in nutrients allowing the growth of many crops like; white corn, a variety of colored beans, rice, sugar cane, tomatoes, watermelons, squash, chayotes, cucumbers. Fruits include mangoes, cashews, jocotes, bananas, coconuts and paternas. Other industries are the manuf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agua Caliente, El Salvador
Agua Caliente is a municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ... in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador. Agua Caliente, El Salvador is a town north of Chalatenango, the capital city of the department of Chalatenango, North East of Nueva Concepcion. It occupies an area of 195 square kilometers, and has a population (2006) of 8,992. The location of the city center is 14°11′12.91″N, 89°13′19.82″W. As per the Technical Secretary of the Presidency of El Salvador, it has the 27th ranking of extreme poverty of the 267 municipalities of El Salvador. History Most people from the neighboring "cantones" or hamlets display Caucasian features; they may be blond, with fair skin and blue eyes. This may be because the entire department of Chalatenango was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chalatenango Department
Chalatenango () is a department of El Salvador, located in the northwest of the country. The capital is the city of Chalatenango. The Chalatenango Department encompasses 2,017 km² and contains more than 204,000 inhabitants. ''Las Matras Archaeological Ruins'' contains the relics of prehistoric populations and caves in which rock writing is found. The "5 de Noviembre" Hydroelectric Dam is found in Chalatenango Department, near the border with Cabañas. The highest point in the country, El Pital with an elevation of 2730m, is also located in Chalatenango Department. Agriculture The most cultivated agricultural products are the basic grains, henequen (a type of agave), coffee, fruits, orchard plants, and vegetables, horses and cattle, and wilderness agriculture. Moreover, plaster, gold, lime, clay lead, silver, and zinc can be found there. History Around 1790, Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet, Governor of El Salvador, found that the local indigenous population workin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, Cabañas
Victoria is a municipality in the Cabañas department of El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south .... Ciudad Victoria is home to a community-based radio station, Radio Victoria. Municipalities of the Cabañas Department {{ElSalvador-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tejutepeque
Tejutepeque is a municipality in the Cabañas Department, Cabañas Departments of El Salvador, department of El Salvador located in the northeast, with population 20,000 of people. {{Cabañas Department 
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Sensuntepeque
Sensuntepeque () is a town and Municipalities of El Salvador, municipality in the Cabañas Department, Cabañas department of El Salvador. It is the seat of the department and principal town in the area. Sensuntepeque is located about northeast of the capital, San Salvador, at an altitude of . History In the local Pipil language (also called "Nawat", and similar to Nahuatl), Sensuntepeque means "400 hills." The name refers to the many hills in the region. The area was first inhabited by the Lenca people. However, the town itself was founded as a Pipil people village in 1550, and in 1799 it became head of the party of Titihuapa. Colonized by the Spanish, it became an evangelical village. On December 20, 1811, its population rose against Spanish colonial rule. It proclaimed independence in 1821, during the government of José María Cornejo (1829-1832) and formally raised its status to that of a town. In March 1871, the town was raided by Salvadorian Liberals with Honduran Army back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Isidro, Cabañas
San Isidro is a municipality in the Cabañas department of El Salvador, roughly northeast of San Salvador. History The parish of San Isidro was established in an electoral law dated February 18, 1873. It belonged to the San Vicente Department from the 12 June 1824 to 10 February 1873, after which it became part of the newly formed Cabañas Department. By legislative decree of February 7, 1879 it was awarded municipal status. In 1977, archaeologist Wolfgang Haberland was involved in an excavation in the municipality. He discovered petroglyphs in the Grutas de Corinto dated to the Preclassic Mesoamerican period ( 1200 to 400 BC). In the late 1990s, the FAO funded the "Sustainable agriculture on hillsides" project in the municipality of San Isidro. Geography The municipality covers an area of , and is bordered to the north and east by Sensuntepeque, to the east by Guacotecti, to the south by Santa Clara, San Esteban Catarina and San Sebastián in the San Vicente Department, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jutiapa, Cabañas
Jutiapa is a municipality in the Cabañas department of El Salvador. Its population was of 3,166 for the year 2013.DIGESTYCProyecciones municipales/ref> History Jutiapa is a pre-Columbian settlement, and its original name was ''Tepeahua''. According to tradition, a group of Dominicans found the image of Saint Christopher in the area of the actual settlement, so they decided to move the inhabitants of the neighboring Azacualpa. In 1740 there lived about 25 people, and in 1770, as part of the parish of Suchitoto and in accordance with Pedro Cortés y Larraz, had a total of 189 inhabitants. In 1786, it joined the Cojutepeque Party. Between 1824 and 1835, it was part of the department of San Salvador, and in the last year it became part of Cuscatlan. In 1859, Jutiapa had 1,772 inhabitants, and neighbouring with several farms indigo Indigo is a deep color close to the color wheel blue (a primary color in the RGB color space), as well as to some variants of ultramari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilobasco
Ilobasco is a municipality in the Cabañas department of El Salvador. It is located 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of the capital, San Salvador. This town is known country wide (and internationally) for its clay (other materials also used) craftsmanship or pottery Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and ....Encyclopædia Britannichttp://www.britannica.com/bps/topic/283164/Ilobasco/ref> The clay is extracted and prepared locally. The clay work includes the "miniatures", which are small representations of daily scenes as lived by Salvadorans, no bigger than 2 inches tall. The Town is also home for second division soccer team El Roble. One version of the miniatures are the "surprises", which are basically a scene covered with another piece of clay shaped and painte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guacotecti
Guacotecti is a municipality in the Cabañas department of El Salvador. History Guacotecti already existed in the first half of the 16th century when Spaniards Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a Romance ethnic group native to Spain. Within Spain, there are a number of national and regional ethnic identities that reflect the country's complex history, including a number of different languages, both in ... came here. Although founded and inhabited by Lenca tribes, Guacotecti was conquered at the end of the 15th century by Yaqui or Pipil warriors. Indeed, Guacotecti, in Nahuatl language, means "High Priest of the Treasures". References {{Cabañas Department Municipalities of the Cabañas Department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
