San Pedro Perulapán 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

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 252,000 people. Cuscatlán or Cuzcatlán was the name the original in ...

of El Salvador. San Pedro Perulapán is a town whose origins are

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; it received the title of city on April 28, 1921. The Battle of San Pedro Perulapán occurred here on September 25, 1839, in which

Francisco Morazán José Francisco Morazán Quesada (; born October 3, 1792 – September 15, 1842) was a Central American politician who served as president of the Federal Republic of Central America from 1830 to 1839. Before he was president of Central America h ...

with 800 Salvadorans defeated 2,000 Honduran and

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forces during the break-up of the

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. A bell tower in the town still has the bell whose toll announced the victory of the Salvadorans. The parish church contains an image of

Saint Peter ) (Simeon, Simon) , birth_date = , birth_place = Bethsaida, Gaulanitis, Syria, Roman Empire , death_date = Between AD 64–68 , death_place = probably Vatican Hill, Rome, Italia, Roman Empire , parents = John (or Jonah; Jona) , occupat ...

that still has the bullet hole it received during this battle. From the peak of the bell tower one can see the volcano of

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