The
municipalities 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 b ...
, called ''
municipios'', are 262 in total. Each one having its own capital and a variable number of
cantons
A canton is a type of administrative division of a country. In general, cantons are relatively small in terms of area and population when compared with other administrative divisions such as counties, departments, or provinces. Internationally, t ...
; these are conformed of caserÃos.
The quantity of municipalities in each of the 14 departments of El Salvador is the following:
Ahuachapán Department
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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 ...
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Apaneca
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Atiquizaya
Atiquizaya is a municipality in the Ahuachapán department
Ahuachapán () is a department of El Salvador in the west of the country. The capital is Ahuachapán. In the South it has the Apaneca-Ilamatepec Range and the Cerro Grande de Apane ...
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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, whi ...
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El Refugio
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Guaymango
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Jujutla
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San Francisco Menéndez
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San Lorenzo
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* San Lorenzo, Santa Fe
* San Lorenzo Department, Chaco
* Monte San Lorenzo, a mountain on t ...
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San Pedro Puxtla
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Tacuba
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TurÃn
Cabañas Department
Cabañas () is a department of El Salvador in the north central part of the country. Its capital is Sensuntepeque and it is one of coolest parts of El Salvador. Classified as a department in February 1873, it covers an area of and has over 164,9 ...
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Cinquera
Cinquera is a municipality in the Cabañas department of El Salvador.
Local Attractions
* Hostal de Cinquera (translation: Hostel of Cinquera)
* Memorial de el conflicto armado Park (translation: memorial of the armed conflict park)
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Dolores Dolores, Spanish for "pain; grief", most commonly refers to:
* Our Lady of Sorrows or La Virgen MarÃa de los Dolores
* Dolores (given name)
Dolores may also refer to:
Film
* ''Dolores'' (2017 film), an American documentary by Peter Bratt
* ' ...
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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
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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) ...
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Jutiapa
Jutiapa is a city and a municipality in the Jutiapa department of Guatemala.
Located 124 km from the city of Guatemala City, at an altitude of 892 m (2,926 ft),
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San Isidro
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Sensuntepeque
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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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Victoria
Chalatenango Department
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Agua Caliente
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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 Caà ...
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Azacualpa
Azacualpa () is a town, with a population of 10,470 (2020 calculation), and a Municipalities of Honduras, municipality in the Honduras, Honduran Departments of Honduras, department of Santa Bárbara Department, Honduras, Santa Bárbara, known for ...
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Chalatenango
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Citalá
Citalá is a municipality in the Chalatenango department
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Comalapa
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Concepción Quezaltepeque
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* Concepción, Catamarca, a villa ...
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Dulce Nombre de MarÃa
Dulce Nombre de MarÃa is a town and municipality in the 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 en ...
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El Carrizal
El Carrizal is a municipality located in the department of Chalatenango in the North of El Salvador.
Municipality
El Carrizal is a municipality in the department of Chalatenango, El Salvador, bordered to the north and east by Honduras; to the ...
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El ParaÃso
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La Laguna
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La Palma
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La Reina
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Las Vueltas
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Nombre de Jesús
Nombre de Jesús is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador
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Nueva Concepción
Nueva Concepción is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador
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Nueva Trinidad
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Ojos de Agua
Ojos de Agua is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador. It is about 1700 feet (or about 1.1 kilometers) from the border of Honduras and El Salvador, which is formed by the Rio Sumpul.
The name "Ojos de Agua" translates ...
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Potonico
Potonico is a municipality in the 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 km ...
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San Antonio de la Cruz
San Antonio de la Cruz is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador
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(San Antonio La Cruz)
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San Antonio Los Ranchos
San Antonio Los Ranchos is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador
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(San Antonio Ranchos)
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San Fernando
San Fernando may refer to:
People
*Ferdinand III of Castile (c. 1200–1252), called ''San Fernando'' (Spanish) or ''Saint Ferdinand'', King of Castile, León, and Galicia
Places Argentina
*San Fernando de la Buena Vista, city of Greater Buenos ...
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San Francisco Lempa
San Francisco Lempa is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador
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San Francisco Morazán
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San Ignacio San Ignacio (the Spanish language name of St. Ignatius (disambiguation), St. Ignatius) is a common toponym in parts of the world where that language is or was spoken:
Argentina
* San Ignacio, Argentina, Misiones Province
* San Ignacio MinÃ, a ...
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San Isidro Labrador
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San José Cancasque
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San José Las Flores
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San Luis del Carmen
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San Miguel de Mercedes
San Miguel de Mercedes is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador
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San Rafael
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Santa Rita Santa Rita may refer to:
* Rita of Cascia (1381–1457), Catholic saint
*Associação Atlética Santa Rita, a Brazilian football (soccer) club
*Santa Rita de Cássia FC, an Angolan football (soccer) club
Places Belize
* Santa Rita, Corozal, a Ma ...
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Tejutla
Cuscatlán Department
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Candelaria
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Cojutepeque
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El Carmen
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El Rosario
''El rosario'' is a 1944 Mexican romantic drama film directed by Juan José Ortega. The film is based on a novel by Florence L. Barclay. It stars Andrea Palma
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Monte San Juan
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Oratorio de Concepción
Oratorio de Concepción is a municipality in the Cuscatlán department
Cuscatlán () is a department of El Salvador, located in the center of the country. With a surface area of , it is El Salvador's smallest department. It is inhabited by o ...
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San Bartolomé PerulapÃa
San Bartolomé PerulapÃa is a municipality in the Cuscatlán department
Cuscatlán () is a department of El Salvador, located in the center of the country. With a surface area of , it is El Salvador's smallest department. It is inhabited by ...
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San Cristóbal
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San José Guayabal
San José Guayabal is a municipality in the Cuscatlán department
Cuscatlán () is a department of El Salvador, located in the center of the country. With a surface area of , it is El Salvador's smallest department. It is inhabited by over ...
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San Pedro Perulapán
San Pedro Perulapán is a municipality in the Cuscatlán department of El Salvador. San Pedro Perulapán is a town whose origins are pre-Columbian; it received the title of city on April 28, 1921. The Battle of San Pedro Perulapán occurred h ...
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San Rafael Cedros
San Rafael Cedros is a municipality in the Cuscatlán department
Cuscatlán () is a department of El Salvador, located in the center of the country. With a surface area of , it is El Salvador's smallest department. It is inhabited by over ...
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San Ramón
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Santa Cruz Analquito
Santa Cruz Analquito is a municipality in the Cuscatlán department of El Salvador
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Santa Cruz Michapa
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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 ...
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Tenancingo
La Libertad Department
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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 ...
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Chiltiupán
Chiltiupán is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador
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Ciudad Arce
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Colón
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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 ...
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Huizúcar
Huizúcar is a municipality in the city of La Libertad in El Salvador
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Jayaque
Jayaque is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador. According to the 2007 census, Jayaque has a population of 11,058. It covers an area of approximately and has an altitude of at its highest elevation. The Nahuatl place-nam ...
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Jicalapa
Jicalapa is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador
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La Libertad
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Nuevo Cuscatlán
Nuevo Cuscatlán is a municipality of El Salvador, belonging to the department of La Libertad, it is located 13 kilometers from San Salvador. It borders to the north and east with Antiguo Cuscatlán, to the south with Huizúcar and San José Villan ...
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Opico
Opico (or San Juan Opico) is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador.
It is located 42 kilometers from San Salvador, capital of the republic. The municipality has an area of 218 km² and a population of 74,280 inhabitan ...
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Quezaltepeque
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Sacacoyo
Sacacoyo 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 ''munic ...
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San José Villanueva
San Jose Villanueva is a small municipality in the Department of La Libertad, El Salvador. San Jose Villanueva has a population of 14,000 inhabitants (according to the PNC) and 9,896 inhabitants (according to SIBASI 2001). It is located in the so ...
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San MatÃas
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San Pablo Tacachico
San Pablo Tacachico is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador
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Santa Tecla
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Talnique
Talnique is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador
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Tamanique
Tamanique is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador
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Teotepeque
Teotepeque is a Municipalities of El Salvador, municipality in the La Libertad Department, El Salvador, La Libertad Departments of El Salvador, department of El Salvador. Its geographical coordinates are 13° 35' 7" North, 89° 31' 6" West. The n ...
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Tepecoyo
Tepecoyo is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador, situated 30 minutes from Santa Tecla.
Tradition
Tepecoyo is a very old and traditional town like every other Pipil settlement. It was founded by only four families.
Its ...
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Zaragoza
La Paz Department
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Cuyultitán
Cuyultitán is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador
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El Rosario
''El rosario'' is a 1944 Mexican romantic drama film directed by Juan José Ortega. The film is based on a novel by Florence L. Barclay. It stars Andrea Palma
Andrea Palma (b. Trapani, 1644 or 1664 – d. 1730) was an 18th-century Italian arc ...
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Jerusalén
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Mercedes La Ceiba
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Olocuilta
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ParaÃso de Osorio
ParaÃso de Osorio is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador
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San Antonio Masahuat
San Antonio Masahuat is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador
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San Emigdio
San Emigdio () is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador
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San Francisco Chinameca
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San Juan Nonualco
San Juan Nonualco is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador
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San Juan Talpa
San Juan Talpa is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador
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San Juan Tepezontes
San Juan Tepezontes is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador. Its name is a Hispanicization of a Nawat term meaning "many hills." It was incorporated in 1945. Its population as of 2004 was 3,269.
The town was severely damaged b ...
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San Luis La Herradura
La Herradura is a municipality in the La Paz Department, El Salvador
La Paz () is a department of El Salvador in the south central area of the country. The capital is Zacatecoluca. La Paz has an area of 1,228 km2 and a population of mor ...
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San Luis Talpa
San Luis Talpa is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador. It is close to Monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport, which itself is about eight kilometres from the capital, San Salvador
San Salvador (; ) is the ...
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San Miguel Tepezontes
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San Pedro Masahuat
San Pedro Masahuat is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador
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San Pedro Nonualco
San Pedro Nonualco is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador
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San Rafael Obrajuelo
San Rafael Obrajuelo is a municipality in the department of La Paz Department (El Salvador), La Paz, El Salvador. As of 2017 it was estimated to have a population of 11,403.
History
According to the report of the :es:Intendencia de San Salva ...
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Santa MarÃa Ostuma
Santa MarÃa Ostuma is a municipality in the La Paz department of El Salvador
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Santiago Nonualco
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Tapalhuaca
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Zacatecoluca
La Unión Department
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Anamorós
Anamorós is a Municipalities of El Salvador, municipality in the La Unión Department, La Unión department of El Salvador.
The associated Roman Catholic, Catholic parish was the first post of future archbishop and martyr Óscar Romero.
Histor ...
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BolÃvar
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Concepción de Oriente
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*Concepción, Catamarca, a villag ...
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Conchagua
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El Carmen
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El Sauce
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Intipucá
Intipucá is a small municipality in the southwestern La Unión department of El Salvador.
Etymology
Intipucá is a cognate of the Intibucá department of neighboring Honduras and is an alternate spelling of the same term in the Lenca language
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La Unión
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Lislique
Lislique is a municipality in the La Unión department
La Unión () is a department of El Salvador. It is located in the eastern part of the country and its capital is La Unión. It covers a total of and has a population of 263,200. The ...
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Meanguera del Golfo
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Nueva Esparta
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Pasaquina
Pasaquina is a municipality in the La Unión department
La Unión () is a department of El Salvador. It is located in the eastern part of the country and its capital is La Unión. It covers a total of and has a population of 263,200. The ...
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Polorós
Polorós is a municipality in the La Unión department
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San Alejo
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San José
San José or San Jose (Spanish for Saint Joseph) most often refers to:
*San Jose, California, United States
*San José, Costa Rica, the nation's capital
San José or San Jose may also refer to:
Places Argentina
* San José, Buenos Aires
** San ...
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Santa Rosa de Lima
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Yayantique
Yayantique is a municipality in the La Unión department
La Unión () is a department of El Salvador. It is located in the eastern part of the country and its capital is La Unión. It covers a total of and has a population of 263,200. Th ...
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YucuaiquÃn
Morazán Department
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Arambala
Arambala is a municipality (''municipio'') in the Morazán Department of El Salvador
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Cacaopera
Cacaopera is a municipality in the Morazán department of El Salvador.
According to UNESCO:
The community of Cacaopera is the sole surviving representative of an otherwise vanished ethnic group, variously referred to as Ulua, Matagalpa, or C ...
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Chilanga Chilanga may refer to:
*Chilanga, El Salvador, a municipality in the Morazán Department of El Salvador
*Chilanga (Lusaka), Zambia, a town 20 km south of Zambia's Capital Lusaka
*Chilanga (constituency)
Chilanga is a constituency of the Nati ...
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Corinto
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Delicias de Concepción
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El Divisadero
El Divisadero is a municipality in the Morazán department of El Salvador
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El Rosario
''El rosario'' is a 1944 Mexican romantic drama film directed by Juan José Ortega. The film is based on a novel by Florence L. Barclay. It stars Andrea Palma
Andrea Palma (b. Trapani, 1644 or 1664 – d. 1730) was an 18th-century Italian arc ...
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Gualococti
Gualococti is a municipality in the Morazán department of El Salvador
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Guatajiagua
Guatajiagua is a municipality in the Morazán department of El Salvador
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Joateca
Joateca is a municipality in the Morazán department of El Salvador
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Jocoaitique
Jocoaitique is a municipality in the Morazán department of El Salvador
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Jocoro
Jocoro is a municipality in the Morazán department of El Salvador
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Lolotiquillo
Lolotiquillo is a municipality in the Morazán department of El Salvador
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Meanguera
Meanguera del Golfo is a municipality in the La Unión department of El Salvador. Located from department of La Unión and from San Salvador on the island of Meanguera in the Gulf of Fonseca. It has an area of with a population of 2,398 in ...
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Osicala
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PerquÃn
PerquÃn is a municipality in the Morazán department of El Salvador. It is home to the Museum of the Revolution, which contains artifacts and exhibits related to the Salvadoran Civil War. Exhibits include a recreation of Radio Venceremos, a civi ...
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San Carlos
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San Fernando
San Fernando may refer to:
People
*Ferdinand III of Castile (c. 1200–1252), called ''San Fernando'' (Spanish) or ''Saint Ferdinand'', King of Castile, León, and Galicia
Places Argentina
*San Fernando de la Buena Vista, city of Greater Buenos ...
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San Francisco Gotera
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San Isidro
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San Simón
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Sensembra
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Sociedad
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Torola
Torola is a municipality in the Morazán department
Morazán () is a department of El Salvador. Located in the northeast part of the country, its capital is San Francisco Gotera. It covers a total surface area of 1,447 km² and has a ...
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Yamabal
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YoloaiquÃn
YoloaiquÃn is a municipality in the Morazán department of El Salvador
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San Miguel Department
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Carolina
Carolina may refer to:
Geography
* The Carolinas, the U.S. states of North and South Carolina
** North Carolina, a U.S. state
** South Carolina, a U.S. state
* Province of Carolina, a British province until 1712
* Carolina, Alabama, a town in ...
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Chapeltique
Chapeltique 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 '' ...
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Chinameca
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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 ...
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Ciudad Barrios
Ciudad Barrios is a city in the San Miguel department of El Salvador. Ciudad Barrios is one of the most cultural places in El Salvador with a lot of attractions and it is the birthplace of Archbishop Óscar Romero
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y G ...
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Comacarán
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El Tránsito
El Tránsito is a municipality in the department of San Miguel, El Salvador. According to the official census of 2016, it has a population of 21,093 inhabitants. It limits the north with the municipality of San Rafael Oriente; to the east wi ...
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Lolotique
Lolotique is a municipality in the San Miguel department of El Salvador
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Moncagua
Moncagua 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 ''munici ...
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Nueva Guadalupe
Nueva Guadalupe is a municipality in the San Miguel department of El Salvador
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Nuevo Edén de San Juan
Nuevo Edén de San Juan is a municipality in the San Miguel department of El Salvador.
This is a small town of 1500 people in the northern part of El Salvador. This is the former home to Santana Vasquez.
Geography
It is bordered by the foll ...
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Quelepa
Quelepa is an important archaeological site located in eastern El Salvador. Generally considered to have been settled by the Lenca people, the site was founded around 400 BC in the Late Preclassic period (500 BC - AD 250). The inhabitants const ...
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San Antonio
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San Gerardo
San Gerardo is a municipality in the department of San Miguel, El Salvador
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San Jorge
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San Luis de la Reina
San Luis de la Reina (Saint Louis of the Queen) is a municipality in the San Miguel department of El Salvador. San Luis is an ecotourist destination.
In the late 18th century, the Ostucal Hacienda (Ostucal is Nawat for "houses in the ravine") ...
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San Miguel
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San Rafael (San Rafael Oriente)
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Sesori
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Uluazapa
San Salvador Department
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Aguilares
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Apopa
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Ayutuxtepeque
Ayutuxtepeque is a municipality in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. It is one of the nine municipalities that make up the San Salvador Metropolitan Area (AMSS). The name of the municipality means "Armadillos Hill(or Mountain)"
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Cuscatancingo
Cuscatancingo is a municipality in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. It is located about from the city of San Salvador
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Delgado
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El Paisnal
El Paisnal is a municipality in the San Salvador department
San Salvador () is a department of El Salvador in the west central part of the country. The capital is San Salvador, which is also the national capital. The department has North of th ...
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Guazapa
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Ilopango
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Mejicanos
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Nejapa
Nejapa is a municipality in the San Salvador department of El Salvador.
Traditions Las Bolas De Fuego
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Panchimalco
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Rosario de Mora
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San Marcos
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San MartÃn
San MartÃn or San Martin may refer to:
People Saints
* Saint Martin (disambiguation)#People, name of various saints in Spanish
Political leaders
*Vicente San Martin (1839 -1901), Military, National hero of Mexico.
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San Salvador
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Santiago Texacuangos
Santiago Texacuangos is a municipality in the San Salvador department of El Salvador
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Santo Tomás
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Soyapango
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Tonacatepeque
Tonacatepeque is a municipality in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. It has a population of 90,896 inhabitants according to the 2007 Census. This makes this municipality twelfth largest in terms of population in El Salvador.
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San Vicente Department
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Apastepeque
Apastepeque is a municipality in the San Vicente Department, El Salvador. It is located approximately 50 km east of San Salvador and approximately 6 km from San Vicente, El Salvador, San Vicente. The town has approximately 10,000 resid ...
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Guadalupe
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San Cayetano Istepeque
San Cayetano Istepeque (), is a municipality in the San Vicente department of El Salvador
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San Esteban Catarina
San Esteban Catarina is a municipality in the San Vicente department of El Salvador.
San Esteban Catarina is set on a hill (cerro) and it has kept the traditional sets of a typical village. Every year in San Esteban Catarina there is a hot air ba ...
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San Ildefonso
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San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo is the Italian and Spanish name for Lawrence of Rome, Saint Lawrence, the 3rd-century Christian martyr, and may refer to:
Places Argentina
* San Lorenzo, Santa Fe
* San Lorenzo Department, Chaco
* Monte San Lorenzo, a mountain on t ...
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San Sebastián
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San Vicente
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Santa Clara
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Santo Domingo
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Tecoluca
Tecoluca is a municipality in the San Vicente department of El Salvador
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Tepetitán
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Verapaz
Santa Ana Department
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Candelaria de la Frontera
Candelaria de la Frontera is a municipality in the Santa Ana department
Santa Ana () is a department of El Salvador in the northwest of the country. The capital is Santa Ana, one of the largest cities in El Salvador. It has 2,023 km² and ...
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Chalchuapa
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Coatepeque
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El Congo
El Congo is a city and municipality in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador
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El Porvenir
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Masahuat
Masahuat is a city and municipality in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador
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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 ...
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San Antonio Pajonal
San Antonio Pajonal is a city and municipality in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador
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San Sebastián Salitrillo
San Sebastián Salitrillo is a city and municipality in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador
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Santa Ana
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Santa Rosa GuachipilÃn
Santa Rosa GuachipilÃn is a city and municipality in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador situated close to the Lempa River
The Lempa River ( es, RÃo Lempa) is a river in Central America.
Geography
Its sources are located in between the ...
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Santiago de la Frontera
Santiago de la Frontera is a city and municipality in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador
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Texistepeque
Texistepeque is a city and municipality in the Santa Ana department of western El Salvador. It lies in the center of the department, north of Santa Ana and south of Metapán. It was founded by the Poqomam Maya peoples and conquered by the Pipil p ...
Sonsonate Department
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Acajutla
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Armenia
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Caluco
Caluco is a city and municipality in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador. According to the 2007 Population and Housing Census, it has a population of 9,139.
History
Caluco was a producer of cocoa
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Chocolate
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Cuisnahuat
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Izalco
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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.
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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- ...
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Nahulingo
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Salcoatitán
Salcoatitán is a municipality in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador
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San Antonio del Monte
''San Antonio del Monte is also a subdivision of GarafÃa in the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands''
San Antonio del Monte ( Spanish for "Saint Anthony of the mountain") is a municipality in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador
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San Julián
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Santa Catarina Masahuat
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Santa Isabel Ishuatán
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Santo Domingo
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Sonsonate
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Sonzacate
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.
Created on June 22, 1865, it is El Salvador's largest department. It h ...
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AlegrÃa
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BerlÃn
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California
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Concepción Batres
Concepción Batres is a 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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El Triunfo
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EreguayquÃn EreguayquÃn is a 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.
Created on ...
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Estanzuelas
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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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Jucuapa Jucuapa is a 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.
Created on June ...
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Jucuarán
′′′Jucuarán′′′ is a municipality in the department of Usulután, El Salvador. According to the official census of 2007, it has a population of 13,424 inhabitants.
History
The population is of pre-Columbian origin Ulúa, and by the ...
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Mercedes Umaña Mercedes Umaña is a 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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Nueva Granada
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Ozatlán
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Puerto El Triunfo
Puerto El Triunfo is a municipality in the Usulután department of El Salvador.
Beginning as a coffee trade port, Puerto El Triunfo was founded in 1875 as a need for the exportation of the coffee industry in northern Usulután. This city is loc ...
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San AgustÃn
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San Buenaventura
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San Dionisio
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San Francisco Javier
San Francisco Javier is a 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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Santa Elena
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Santa MarÃa
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Santiago de MarÃa
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Tecapán
Tecapán is a municipality in the Usulután department of El Salvador
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Usulután
See also
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Departments of El Salvador
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Geography of El Salvador
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List of cities in El Salvador
This article shows a list of cities in El Salvador.
Cities
Over 100,000 or a High Human Development Index, and a high urbanization.
AMSS = San Salvador Metropolitan Area
* Acajutla - Pop. 47,678
* Apopa - Pop. 217,733 (AMSSIOO)
* Antiguo Cu ...
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Ranked list of Salvadoran departments The following article is a ranked list of Salvadoran departments.
By area
The following table presents a listing of El Salvador's 14 departments ranked in order of their surface area.
By population
The following table presents a listing of El S ...
{{Articles on second-level administrative divisions of North American countries
Subdivisions of El Salvador
Municipalities
Municipalities, El Salvador