Meanguera del Golfo 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
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 department was created on June 22, 1865, and the city of L ...
of
El Salvador. Located from department of La Unión and from
San Salvador on the
island
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of Meanguera in the
Gulf of Fonseca
The Gulf of Fonseca ( es, Golfo de Fonseca; ), a part of the Pacific Ocean, is a gulf in Central America, bordering El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
History
Fonseca Bay was discovered for Europeans in 1522 by Gil González de Ávil ...
. It has an area of with a population of 2,398 inhabitants (2007).
Three countries -
Honduras,
El Salvador, and
Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...
- have coastline along the gulf, and all three have been involved in a lengthy dispute over the rights to the gulf and the islands located there within. In 1992, a chamber of the
International Court of Justice
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(ICJ) decided the Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute, of which the gulf dispute was a part. The
ICJ determined that
El Salvador,
Honduras, and
Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...
were to share control of the Gulf of Fonseca.
El Salvador was awarded the islands of Meanguera and Meanguerita, and
Honduras was awarded
El Tigre Island.
Current Mayor: Since 2012-2015 Luis Dheming-Almendarez
References
External links
Islands of El Salvador
Territorial disputes of Honduras
Territorial disputes of El Salvador
El Salvador–Honduras border
Municipalities of the La Unión Department
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