San Vicente () is a
department of
El Salvador
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in the center of the country. The capital is
San Vicente. On October 4, 1834, San Vicente City of Austria and Lorenzana (Ciudad de San Vicente de Austria y Lorenzana) was made the capital of State of El Salvador during the Federal Republic of Central America. In 1840, it was no longer the capital of the State of El Salvador, but it continues to be the capital of the department. The department was created on June 12, 1824. The San Vicente department is and has a population in excess of 174,500. The forest
Bosque La Joya is found in San Vincente.
Municipalities
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Apastepeque
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Guadalupe
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San Cayetano Istepeque
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San Esteban Catarina
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San Ildefonso
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San Lorenzo
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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
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Tepetitán
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Verapaz
History
During the
Salvadoran Civil War
The Salvadoran Civil War ( es, guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve year period of civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or ...
, the region was considered a stronghold for the rebel
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( es, Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, FMLN) is a left-wing political party in El Salvador.
The FMLN was formed as an umbrella group on 10 October 1980, from five leftist gu ...
. In August 1982, the
Salvadoran Army
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Conflicts The Football War
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began a campaign in the area, moving in with ground troops after several days of bombing. On August 21–22, the
Atlácatl Battalion surprised a group of hundreds of refugees at El Calabozo beside the
Amatitán river, opening fire at close range. More than two hundred are reported to have died, among them infants and elderly, leading the incident to be called
El Calabozo massacre.
Volcano of San Vicente
One of the most imposing volcanoes of the coastal chain is the Chinchontepec, or volcano of San Vicente, located in the confines of the department of the same name. Its almost perfect cone, as sugar pile, finishes off in two hill tops and this peculiarity gives origin to its nahuatl name “Hill of two tits”.
The oriental summit was called “volcano of Zacatecoluca”, is the highest one at 2,173 meters over sea level and it presents a well formed and conserved crater whose bottom at 1,990 meters has a swamp in the stormy season.
The western summit, smaller at 2,083 meters, exhibits an open crater to the east.
Dense vegetation covers both summits. To the northeast, at 820 meters in a ravine of 180 meters of longitude, there are fumaroles; fountains of clear and muddy water or small volcanoes of mud. The most important is to the south of the geological fissure. These groups of phenomenon of geological action are called “infiernillos”. In them, the water is at temperatures of 60 °C to 98 °C and they contain great quantities of water vapor, sulfuric acid, sulfuric hydrogen, and carbonic acid.
The Valley of Jiboa expands to the northeast and north of the western summit. It is also called Valley of Millers.
Chichontepec Volcano has also in the midst of the valley, an important archaeological site called "Tehuacan." This was a place of adoration to the Aztec gods, and the found structures demonstrates the type of hierarchical organization their tribes had.
Products
San Vicente is known for the variety of typical sweets made with
coconut preserves, nance, and
tamarindo. In San Esteban Catarina, sweets of panela and pilon sugar are manufactured. San Sebastian is known for its textile production.
References
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Departments of El Salvador
States and territories established in 1824