Nueva Granada 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

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 ...

of El Salvador. According to the official census of 2007, it has a population of 7,451 inhabitants.

History

Nueva Granada stands for New Grenade and it was founded in

1854 Events January–March * January 4 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the ''Samarang''. * January 6 – The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is perhaps born. * January 9 – The ...

. Nueva Granada's jurisdiction resulted in the incorporation of the estate of the Nuevo Carrizal, which stands for New Reedbed. On April 24, 1907, the National Legislative Assembly issued a legislative decree that segregated from the jurisdiction of

Estanzuelas Estanzuelas is a municipality in the Usulután department of El Salvador. Geography The municipality is located to the southeast of San Ildefonso of the department of San Vicente, to the north of Mercedes Umaña and to the west of Nueva Gr ...

, the Gualcho, and Jocomontique estates. These estates were annexed to El Triunfo estate, which stands for "Triumph." The decree included the demarcation line between Gualcho and Jocomontique populations, which was determined by the Official Engineer appointed by the government to separate the lands of the Jocomontique estate from the common lands of Estanzuelas. This Decree was sanctioned by the president,

Fernando Figueroa Fernando Figueroa (4 March 1849 – 16 June 1919) was the President of El Salvador from 14 May to 18 June 1885 and again from 1 March 1907 to 1 March 1911. He also served twice as Minister of National Defense and Governor of San Vicente. Early ...

May 4 Events Pre-1600 * 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''. * 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus ar ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, Nueva Granada petitioned the Salvadorian Government for recognition as a town, which petition was granted. On

May 15 Events Pre-1600 * 221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty. * 392 – Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbog ...

, 1907, the National Legislative Assembly issued a legislative decree that built the El Carrizal hamlet in town, with the name of Nueva Granada; This was segregated from the jurisdiction of El Triunfo. The decree was sanctioned by President Figueroa on the following day, May 16. The executive decree that specified the jurisdictional limits of the town was issued on

August 26 Events Pre-1600 * 683 – Yazid I's army kills 11,000 people of Medina including notable Sahabas in Battle of al-Harrah. *1071 – The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert, and soon gain control of most ...

, 1907; its limits were: to the east, with the Los Zapotes or El Triunfo ravine, in its entirety from south to north; to the north, with lands of the Gualcho and Jocomontique estates from east to west until reaching a dry ravine called El Aguacate or "Lepaso"; to the west, through this same ravine upstream, until reaching a point called Rincón de Mariano Ayala and Esteban Bermúdez, and from there, in a straight line and to the south, until finding the local road that leads from El Triunfo to Mercedes Umaña; and to the south, along the same road, in all its extension, from west to east until the ravine of los Zapotes or El Triunfo. The same decree of August 26 marked the first Sunday of September for the Municipality of the town of El Triunfo to proceed with the election of a mayor, two councilors and a trustee who formed the municipality of Nueva Granada. Nueva Granada acquired the title of town on

August 25 Events Pre-1600 * 19 – The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to ...

of 1955. In the year

1916 Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * J ...

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References

Municipalities of the Usulután Department {{ElSalvador-geo-stub