San Salvador San Salvador (; ) is the capital and the largest city of El Salvador and its eponymous department. It is the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. The Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, which comprises the capital i ...

(Spanish for "Holy Savior") is the capital of El Salvador. San Salvador may also refer to:

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Metropolitan Area of San Salvador The Metropolitan Area of San Salvador (''Área Metropolitana de San Salvador'' or ''AMSS'') is a metropolitan area formed by San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, and thirteen of its surrounding municipalities. It was instituted in 1993 thr ...

, El Salvador *

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 the Rio Lempa Valley, the "Valle de las Hamacas" (Hammock Valley ...

, El Salvador *

San Salvador District San Salvador District is one of eight Districts of Peru, districts of the province Calca Province, Calca in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Pachatusan at . Other mountains are listed below: Ethnic groups The peop ...

, Peru *

San Salvador, Entre Ríos San Salvador is a city in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It has 13,228 inhabitants per the , and is the head town of the San Salvador Department. It is located on the center-east of the province, by National Route 18, about 48 km we ...

, Argentina *

San Salvador, Hidalgo San Salvador is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion o ...

, Mexico * San Salvador Municipality, Hidalgo, Mexico * San Salvador, Peru * San Salvador, Valladolid, Spain *

San Salvador Atenco San Salvador Atenco is the municipal seat of Atenco, in the Mexican state of Mexico. The name "Atenco" comes from a Nahuatl phrase meaning "place on the edge of water". The town Fifteen excavations have been done in this area, uncovering mammo ...

, Mexico *

San Salvador de Jujuy San Salvador de Jujuy (), commonly known as Jujuy and locally often referred to as San Salvador, is the capital and largest city of Jujuy Province in northwest Argentina. Also, it is the seat of the Doctor Manuel Belgrano Department. It lies near ...

, Argentina * San Salvador, Paraguay * San Salvador, a former name of

Tevego Tevego was a settlement and eventual penal colony in Paraguay between 1813 and 1823. It was repopulated in 1843, but then abandoned during the Paraguayan War in the 1860s. It was also known as Tebego, Etevego, Estevegó, Villa del Divino Salvado ...

, Paraguay * San Salvador, a former name of

Keelung Keelung () or Jilong () (; Hokkien POJ: '), officially known as Keelung City, is a major port city situated in the northeastern part of Taiwan. The city is a part of the Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, along with its neighbors, New Taipe ...

, Taiwan, when it served as the capital of Spanish Formosa (1626–1642) * San Salvador, a former name of

Salvador, Bahia Salvador (English: ''Savior'') is a Brazilian municipality and capital city of the state of Bahia. Situated in the Zona da Mata in the Northeast Region of Brazil, Salvador is recognized throughout the country and internationally for its cuisine ...

, Brazil *

San Salvador (volcano) The San Salvador Volcano (also known as Quezaltepeque or El Boquerón) is a stratovolcano situated northwest to the city of San Salvador. The crater has been nearly filled with a relatively newer edifice, the Boquerón volcano. San Salvador is ...

, in El Salvador *

San Salvador Island San Salvador Island (known as Watling's Island from the 1680s until 1925) is an island and district of The Bahamas. It is widely believed that during Christopher Columbus's first expedition to the New World, this island was the first land he s ...

, in the Bahamas *

Isla San Salvador Isla or ISLA may refer to: Organizations * International Securities Lending Association, a trade association * International School of Los Angeles * International Bilingual School, later named International School of Los Angeles People * Isla (g ...

, a former name of Santiago Island in the Galápagos Islands * San Salvador Island, Columbus's name for

Guanahani Guanahaní is an island in the Bahamas that was the first land in the New World sighted and visited by Christopher Columbus' first voyage, on 12 October 1492. It is a bean-shaped island that Columbus changed from its native Taíno name to San Sa ...

, the first island he reached in the Americas * A former settlement area in California consisting of

La Placita, California La Placita (originally: La Placita de los Trujillos; alternate: San Salvador) is a former settlement and the earliest community established in Riverside County, California, USA. The town was informally established soon after 1843 on the Santa Ana ...

and

Agua Mansa, California Agua Mansa ("gentle water") is a former settlement in an unincorporated area of San Bernardino County, California, San Bernardino County, near Colton, California, Colton, California, United States. Once the largest settlement in San Bernardino Co ...

San Salvador, Caguas, Puerto Rico San Salvador is a barrio in the municipality of Caguas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 3,089. History Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and becam ...

, a ''barrio''

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* ''San Salvador'' (Cabrillo's ship), Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo's flagship * ''San Salvador'' (replica ship), a replica of Cabrillo's flagship built by the

Maritime Museum of San Diego The Maritime Museum of San Diego, established in 1948, preserves one of the largest collections of historic sea vessels in the United States. Located on the San Diego Bay, the centerpiece of the museum's collection is the '' Star of India'', an 1 ...

* ''San Salvador'', the Spanish flagship at the

Battle of the Downs The Battle of the Downs took place on 21 October 1639 (New Style), during the Eighty Years' War. A Spanish fleet, commanded by Admiral Antonio de Oquendo, was decisively defeated by a Dutch force under Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp. Vict ...

* ''San Salvador'' (Guipúzcoan squadron), a ship of the Guipúzcoa Squadron in the Spanish Armada; there was another ship of the same name in the Spanish Armada in a different squadron * '' Salvador del Mundo'', a 122-gun ship

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San Salvador, Venice The Chiesa di San Salvatore (of the Holy Savior) is a church in Venice, northern Italy. Known in Venetian as San Salvador, is located on the Campo San Salvador, along the Merceria, the main shopping street of Venice. The church was first consec ...

, a church in Venice, Italy * San Salvador F.C., a football (soccer) club of San Salvador *

San Salvador (band) Sounds Like Chicken was a band from Melbourne, Australia, which formed in 1999 and disbanded in 2007. They were one of Australia's most well-known ska bands and one of the most popular Christian bands in the country. They were signed to Boomt ...

, an Australian reggae rock band featuring members of Sounds Like Chicken * San Salvador ("Holy Savior"), a title of

Jesus Christ Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...

in Spanish * San Salvador, the Spanish name of St

Salvador of Horta Salvador of Horta ( ca, Salvador d'Horta; es, Salvador de Horta; it, Salvatore da Horta; December 152018 March 1567) was a Spanish Franciscan lay brother from the region of Catalonia in Spain, who was celebrated as a miracle worker during his ...

(1520–1567), a Spanish saint * Towers of the churches of San Salvador and Santa Cruz (Madrid)

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