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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 b ...
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Cities
Over 100,000 or a High Human Development Index, and a high urbanization. AMSS = San Salvador Metropolitan Area *Acajutla
Acajutla is a seaport city in Sonsonate Department, El Salvador. The city is located at on the Pacific coast of Central America and is El Salvador's principal seaport from which a large portion of the nation's exports of coffee, sugar, and Bals ...
- Pop. 47,678
* Apopa
Apopa is a municipality in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. Probably the seventh biggest city in El Salvador with a little more than 150,000 people, the city has now collided with Soyapango and San Salvador, making it part of the Grea ...
- Pop. 217,733 (AMSSIOO)
* Antiguo Cuscatlán
Antiguo Cuscatlán ''(colloquially known as Antiguo)'' is a municipality in the La Libertad Department (El Salvador), La Libertad department of El Salvador, and its eastern tip lays in San Salvador Department part of the Metropolitan Area of San ...
- Highest HDI in the country (0.896-very high) Pop. 55,608 (AMSS)
* Ciudad Delgado
Ciudad Delgado is a municipality in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. It is a part of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador
The Metropolitan Area of San Salvador (''Área Metropolitana de San Salvador'' or ''AMSS'') is a metropolit ...
- Pop. 174,825 (AMSS)
* Cuscatancingo
Cuscatancingo 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 '' ...
- Pop. 117,013 (AMSS)
* Ilopango
Ilopango is a town in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. It is a few miles east of the nation's capital, San Salvador. It is located near Lake Ilopango, the country's largest lake at 72 square kilometers.
Overview
El Salvador's se ...
- Pop. 159,232 (AMSS)
* Jiquilisco
Jiquilisco is a city and municipality in the Usulután department
Usulután (; from the Nawat language, meaning "city of the ocelots") is a department of El Salvador in the southeast of the country (Lenca region). The capital is Usulután.
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- Pop. 47,784 (AMSS)
* La Unión - Pop. 26,739
* Mejicanos
Mejicanos is a San Salvador suburb in the San Salvador department of El Salvador.
Mejicanos is a city located in San Salvador, El Salvador. At the 2009 estimate it had 160,751 inhabitants. It has been characterized by its typical food "Yuca Fri ...
- Pop. 211,878 (AMSS)
* Metapán
Metapán is a city and municipality in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador. Metapán is situated in the northern part of the department, bordering Honduras and Guatemala. It is the second largest city in the department after Santa Ana and ...
- Pop. 59,004
* San Miguel - Pop. 218,410
* San Salvador
San Salvador (; ) is the capital and the largest city of El Salvador and its eponymous department. It is the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. The Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, which comprises the capital i ...
- (capital) Pop. City 540,989; Metro 2,290,000 (AMSS)
* Santa Tecla - Pop. 164,171 (AMSS)
* Santa Ana - Pop. 280,000
* San Martin - Pop. 144,722 (AMSS)
* Sonsonate
Sonsonate () is a city and municipality of El Salvador. It is the capital of the department of Sonsonate; on the Sensunapan River and the Pan-American Highway from San Salvador to the Pacific port of Acajutla, south. Pop. (2007), about 71,541.
E ...
- Pop. 110,501
* Soyapango
Soyapango is a Municipalities of El Salvador, municipality in the San Salvador Department, San Salvador department of El Salvador. Soyapango is a commercial center.
The municipality is the third most populated area in the country, with 290,412 in ...
- Pop. 262,975 (AMSS)
Towns
Over 50,000, medium to low urbanization, or departmental capital. *Ahuachapán
Ahuachapán () is a city, and municipality, and the capital of the Ahuachapán Department in western El Salvador. The municipality, including the city, covers an area of 244.84 km² and as of 2007 has a population of 110,511 people. Situat ...
- Pop. 110,511
* Chalatenango - Pop. 29,271
* Cojutepeque
Cojutepeque () is the capital city of El Salvador's Cuscatlán department. It also served as the capital of San Salvador during several years. It also serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of Cojutepeque. Its popul ...
- Pop. 70,000
* Nejapa
Nejapa is a municipality in the San Salvador department of El Salvador.
Traditions Las Bolas De Fuego
One of the major traditions of Nejapa is ''Las Bolas De Fuego'' ("Balls of Fire"), celebrated August 31st. The celebration has two origins, ...
- Pop. 50,966
* San Vicente - Pop. 53,213
* Tacuba
Tacuba is a municipality in the Ahuachapán department of El Salvador.
Church Of Tacuba
It is located in Villa of Tacuba. It is head of the municipality of the same name in the department of Ahuachapán, at about 14 Kilometers of the city of Ahu ...
- Pop. 50,000
* Usulután
Usulután () is the fifth largest city in El Salvador, and capital of the Usulután Department in the south-east of El Salvador.
As of 2006, it is estimated to have population of 71,636 people. Usulután rests in a rich agricultural valley and ...
- Pop. 71,636
* Zacatecoluca
Zacatecoluca () is the capital municipality of the La Paz Department of El Salvador.
Located in Southern El Salvador, in the Rio Lempa valley, at the foot of San Vicente (Chinchotepec) Volcano. A commercial center for the surrounding agricultura ...
- Pop. 62,576
Villages
Within the range of 1,001 to 49,999 or have a really low urbanization. * Alegria - Pop. 15,000 *Arambala
Arambala is a municipality (''municipio'') in the Morazán 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 b ...
- Pop. 1,821
* Apaneca
Apaneca is a municipality in the Ahuachapán department of El Salvador.
It has an area of 45.13 square kilometers. Its population is of 8,597 inhabitants (Estimated 2006). The municipality is divided in 7 cantons:
*El Saltillal
*Palo Verde
*Q ...
- Pop. 8,597
* Berlín - Pop. 15,000
* Chirilagua
Chirilagua is a municipality in southeastern El Salvador, in the department of San Miguel.
It contains approximately 24,000 inhabitants as a result of census of 2007. The town is located on a mountain plateau adjacent to the Pacific Ocean.
Th ...
- Pop. 24,000
* Comasagua
Comasagua is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador.
During the January 2001 El Salvador earthquake, a landslide wiped out the only road leading to Comasagua, constraining relief efforts. The town was also at the center of ...
- Pop. 11,870
* Conchagua - Pop. 37,362
* Concepción de Ataco
Concepción de Ataco is a municipality and city within the Ahuachapán Department, El Salvador. It has an area of 61.03 km ² and a population of 18,101 inhabitants (est. 2006).
The municipality administration is divided into 11 cantons, wh ...
- Pop. 18,101
* Juayúa
Juayúa is a city and municipality in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador. It is a small town up in the mountains, founded in 1577. Juayua is located in the western part of El Salvador, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from San Salvador.
H ...
- Pop. 24,465
* Jujutla
Jujutla is a municipality in the Ahuachapán 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 ...
- Pop. 39,596
* La Palma, Chalatenango
La Palma is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador. The municipality, located in a mountainous area of the country, covers an area of 135.60 km2 and as of 2006 had an approximate population of 24,000.
It has historical ...
- Pop. 24,000
* Nahuizalco
Nahuizalco is a municipality in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador. It lies on the "flowers route" ( Ruta de las Flores), 9 km from Sonsonate and 74 km from San Salvador, at 540 m above sea level on the southern part of the Apaneca- ...
- Pop. 49,081
* Santa Rosa de Lima - Pop. 27,693
* Suchitoto
Suchitoto is a municipality in the Department of Cuscatlán, El Salvador that has seen continuous human habitation long before Spanish colonization. Within its municipal territory, Suchitoto holds the site of the original founding of the Villa ...
- Pop. 24,786
See also
*Municipalities of El Salvador
The municipalities or municipios of El Salvador correspond to the second level administrative division in the Republic of El Salvador which divide its departments. El Salvador contains 262 municipalities.
The Municipal Code emitted in the Januar ...
* List of Salvadoran departmental capitals The following article is a list of Salvadoran departmental capitals.
List
See also
{{portal, El Salvador
*Departments of El Salvador
*List of cities in El Salvador
*Ranked list of Salvadoran departments The following article is a ranked list of ...
* Geography of El Salvador
El Salvador is a country in Central America. Situated at the meeting point of three tectonic plates, it is highly seismologically active and the location of List of earthquakes in El Salvador, numerous earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The countr ...
* Salvadoran Departments by HDI
This is a list the fourteen departments of El Salvador by Human Development Index.
Departments
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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 b ...