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is provided as an overview of and topical guide to El Salvador:'' El Salvador –

sovereign country A sovereign state or sovereign country, is a political entity represented by one central government that has supreme legitimate authority over territory. International law defines sovereign states as having a permanent population, defined terr ...

located on the Pacific Coast of

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. The area was originally called by the Pipil "Cuzhcatl", in Spanish "Cuzcatlan", which in Nahuatl means "The Land Of Precious Things". After the

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, the land was baptized by Spanish conquistadors as "Provincia De Nuestro Señor Jesucristo El Salvador Del Mundo" ("Province of Our Lord Jesus Christ, The Savior Of The World"), now abbreviated as "República de El Salvador". The country borders the

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between Guatemala and Honduras. With a population of approximately 5.8 million people, it is the most densely populated nation in Central America and is undergoing rapid industrialization.

General reference

* Pronunciation: * Common English country name: El Salvador * Official English country name: The

Republic of El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning "Jesus, The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the so ...

* Common endonym(s): * Official endonym(s): * Adjectival(s):

Salvadoran Salvadorans (Spanish: ''Salvadoreños''), also known as Salvadorians (alternate spelling: Salvadoreans), are citizens of El Salvador, a country in Central America. Most Salvadorans live in El Salvador, although there is also a significant Salvad ...

* Demonym(s): *

Etymology Etymology ()The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time". is the study of the history of the Phonological chan ...

: In the early sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors named this region "Provincia De Nuestro Señor Jesus Cristo, El Salvador Del Mundo" ("Province Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, The Savior Of The World"), which was subsequently abbreviated to "El Salvador". * International rankings of El Salvador *

ISO country codes ISO 3166-1 (''Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes'') is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. It ...

: SV, SLV, 222 *

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: See ISO 3166-2:SV *

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.sv .sv is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for El Salvador. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 has a bug in its Swedish version where .sv is used instead of .se .se, formerly branded as .SE, is the Internet The Interne ...

Geography of El Salvador

* El Salvador is: a

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* Location: ** Northern Hemisphere and

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**** North America ***** Middle America ******

Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...

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: Central Standard Time ( UTC-06) ** Extreme points of El Salvador *** High:

Cerro El Pital Cerro El Pital is a mountain in Central America, on the border of El Salvador and Honduras. It is located from the town of La Palma La Palma (, ), also known as ''La isla bonita'' () and officially San Miguel de La Palma, is the most nor ...

*** Low:

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0 m ** Land boundaries: 545 km :: 342 km :: 203 km :* Coastline:

307 km * Population of El Salvador: 6,857,000 - 98th most populous country * * Area of El Salvador: 21,040 km² *

Atlas of El Salvador An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a region of Earth. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geograph ...

Environment of El Salvador

* Climate of El Salvador * Wildlife of El Salvador ** Fauna of El Salvador ***

Birds of El Salvador Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight s ...

*** Mammals of El Salvador

Natural geographic features of El Salvador

Islands of El Salvador This is a list of islands of El Salvador: Islands Under Salvadoran control: *Isla Montecristo *Isla Martin Perez * Meanguera del Golfo * Isla Conchaguita *Isla Perico *Isla San Juan del Gozo *Isla Espiritu Santo (El Salvador) *Isla Meanguerit ...

Mountains of El Salvador A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher th ...

** Volcanoes in El Salvador *

Rivers of El Salvador A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

* World Heritage Sites in El Salvador

Regions of El Salvador

Administrative divisions of El Salvador

= Departments of El Salvador

El Salvador is divided into 14 Departments. Their names, abbreviations, (and capitals) are: # AH

Ahuachapán Ahuachapán () is a city, and municipality, and the capital of the Ahuachapán Department in western El Salvador. The municipality, including the city, covers an area of 244.84 km² and as of 2007 has a population of 110,511 people. Situat ...

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) # CA Cabañas (

Sensuntepeque Sensuntepeque () is a town and municipality in the Cabañas department of El Salvador. It is the seat of the department and principal town in the area. Sensuntepeque is located about northeast of the capital, San Salvador, at an altitude of . His ...

) # CH Chalatenango ( Chalatenango) # CU Cuscatlán (

Cojutepeque Cojutepeque () is the capital city of El Salvador's Cuscatlán department. It also served as the capital of San Salvador during several years. It also serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of Cojutepeque. Its popul ...

) # LI La Libertad ( Santa Tecla) # PA La Paz (

Zacatecoluca Zacatecoluca () is the capital municipality of the La Paz Department of El Salvador. Located in Southern El Salvador, in the Rio Lempa valley, at the foot of San Vicente (Chinchotepec) Volcano. A commercial center for the surrounding agricultur ...

) # UN La Unión ( La Unión) # MO Morazán ( San Francisco Gotera) # SM San Miguel ( San Miguel) # SS San Salvador ( San Salvador) # SV San Vicente ( San Vicente) # SA Santa Ana ( Santa Ana) # SO

Sonsonate Sonsonate () is a city and municipality of El Salvador. It is the capital of the department of Sonsonate; on the Sensunapan River and the Pan-American Highway from San Salvador to the Pacific port of Acajutla Acajutla is a seaport city in Sons ...

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) # US

Usulután Usulután () is the fifth largest city in El Salvador, and capital of the Usulután Department in the south-east of El Salvador. As of 2006, it is estimated to have population of 71,636 people. Usulután rests in a rich agricultural valley and ...

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= Municipalities of El Salvador

Municipalities of El Salvador The municipalities or municipios of El Salvador correspond to the second level administrative division in the Republic of El Salvador which divide its departments. El Salvador contains 262 municipalities. The Municipal Code emitted in the Janu ...

* Capital of El Salvador: San Salvador * Cities of El Salvador

Demography of El Salvador

Demographics of El Salvador This is a demography of the population of El Salvador including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. El Salvador's population nu ...

Government and politics of El Salvador

Politics of El Salvador Politics of El Salvador takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of El Salvador is both head of state and head of government, and of an executive power is exercised by the governmen ...

* Form of government: presidential representative democratic republic * Capital of El Salvador: San Salvador * Elections in El Salvador *

Political parties in El Salvador This article lists political parties in El Salvador. Political culture El Salvador has a multi-party system. Two political parties, the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), hav ...

Branches of the government of El Salvador

Government of El Salvador The Government of El Salvador is a presidential representative democratic republic. The seat of the central government is in San Salvador. Executive branch President of El Salvador El Salvador elects its head of state, the President of El ...

Executive branch of the government of El Salvador

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President of El Salvador The president of El Salvador ( es, Presidente de El Salvador), officially known as the President of the Republic of El Salvador ( es, Presidente de la República de El Salvador), is the head of state and head of government of El Salvador. He i ...

, *

Head of government The head of government is the highest or the second-highest official in the executive branch of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, ...

: Prime Minister of El Salvador, * Cabinet of El Salvador

Legislative branch of the government of El Salvador

Legislative Assembly of El Salvador The Legislative Assembly ( es, Asamblea Legislativa) is the legislative branch of the government of El Salvador. Structure The Salvadoran legislature is a unicameral body. It is made up of 84 deputies, all of whom are elected by direct popu ...

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Judicial branch of the government of El Salvador

Court system of El Salvador * Supreme Court of El Salvador

Foreign relations of El Salvador

Foreign relations of El Salvador El Salvador is a member of the United Nations and several of its specialized agencies, the Organization of American States (OAS), the Central American Common Market (CACM), the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), and the Central American Int ...

Diplomatic missions in El Salvador Diplomatics (in American English, and in most anglophone countries), or diplomatic (in British English), is a scholarly discipline centred on the critical analysis of documents: especially, historical documents. It focuses on the conventions, p ...

Diplomatic missions of El Salvador This is a list of diplomatic missions of El Salvador, excluding honorary consulates. El Salvador is a small Central American country with a modest number of diplomatic missions abroad. Africa * ** Rabat (Embassy) Americas * ** Buenos Aires (Emba ...

International organization membership

The Republic of El Salvador is a member of: * Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL) * Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE) *

Central American Common Market The Central American Integration System ( es, Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana, or SICA) has been the economic and political organization of Central American states since 1 February 1993. On 13 December 1991, the ODECA countries (Spa ...

(CACM) *

Central American Integration System The Central American Integration System ( es, Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana, or SICA) has been the economic and political organization of Central American states since 1 February 1993. On 13 December 1991, the ODECA countries (Spa ...

(SICA) *

Food and Agriculture Organization The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)french: link=no, Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; it, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura is an intern ...

(FAO) * Group of 77 (G77) * Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) * International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) * International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) *

International Chamber of Commerce The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC; French: ''Chambre de commerce internationale'') is the largest, most representative business organization in the world. Its over 45 million members in over 100 countries have interests spanning every sec ...

(ICC) *

International Civil Aviation Organization The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO, ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fosters the planning and development of international a ...

(ICAO) *

International Criminal Police Organization The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO; french: link=no, Organisation internationale de police criminelle), commonly known as Interpol ( , ), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and cri ...

(Interpol) * International Development Association (IDA) * International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRCS) *

International Finance Corporation The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is an international financial institution that offers investment, advisory, and asset-management services to encourage private-sector development in less developed countries. The IFC is a member of ...

(IFC) * International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) *

International Labour Organization The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards. Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and o ...

(ILO) * International Maritime Organization (IMO) *

International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster glo ...

(IMF) *

International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...

(IOC) *

International Organization for Migration The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a United Nations agency that provides services and advice concerning migration to governments and migrants, including internally displaced persons, refugees, and migrant workers. The IOM w ...

(IOM) *

International Organization for Standardization The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ) is an international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. Membership requirements are given in Art ...

(ISO) (correspondent) * International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRM) *

International Telecommunication Union The International Telecommunication Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It was established on 17 May 1865 as the International Telegraph Unio ...

(ITU) *

International Telecommunications Satellite Organization The International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO) is an intergovernmental organization charged with overseeing the public service obligations of Intelsat, which was privatized in 2001. It incorporates the principle set forth ...

(ITSO) *

International Trade Union Confederation The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC); german: Internationaler Gewerkschaftsbund (IGB), link=no; es, Confederación Sindical Internacional (CSI), link=no. is the world's largest trade union federation. History The federation w ...

(ITUC) * Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) *

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) is an international financial institution which offers political risk insurance and credit enhancement guarantees. These guarantees help investors protect foreign direct investments against ...

(MIGA) * Nonaligned Movement (NAM) (observer) *

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is an intergovernmental organisation and the implementing body for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), which entered into force on 29 April 1997. The OPCW, with its 193 member ...

(OPCW) * Organization of American States (OAS) *

Permanent Court of Arbitration The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is a non-UN intergovernmental organization located in The Hague, Netherlands. Unlike a judicial court in the traditional sense, the PCA provides services of arbitral tribunal to resolve disputes that aris ...

(PCA) *

Rio Group The Rio Group (G-Rio) was a permanent association of political consultation of Latin America and Caribbean countries, created in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December 18, 1986 with the purpose of creating a better political relationship among the cou ...

(RG) *'' Unión Latina'' *

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(UN) *

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is an intergovernmental organization within the United Nations Secretariat that promotes the interests of developing countries in world trade. It was established in 1964 by the ...

(UNCTAD) *

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

(UNESCO) *

United Nations Industrial Development Organization The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) (French: Organisation des Nations unies pour le développement industriel; French/Spanish acronym: ONUDI) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that assists countries in ...

(UNIDO) *

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon ( ar, قوة الأمم المتحدة المؤقتة في لبنان, he, כוח האו"ם הזמני בלבנון), or UNIFIL ( ar, يونيفيل, he, יוניפי״ל), is a UN peacekeeping m ...

(UNIFIL) *

United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara ( ar, بعثة الأمم المتحدة لتنظيم استفتاء في الصحراء الغربية; french: Mission des Nations Unies pour l'Organisation d'un Référendum au ...

(MINURSO) *

United Nations Mission in Liberia The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) was a peacekeeping operation established in September 2003 to monitor a ceasefire agreement in Liberia following the resignation of President Charles Taylor and the conclusion of the Second Liberia ...

(UNMIL) *

United Nations Mission in the Sudan The United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) was established by the UN Security Council under Resolution 1590 of 24 March 2005, in response to the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the government of the Sudan and the Suda ...

(UNMIS) *

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(UNOCI) *

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(UPU) *

World Confederation of Labour The World Confederation of Labour (WCL) was an international labour organization founded in 1920 and based in Europe. Totalitarian governments of the 1930s repressed the federation and imprisoned many of its leaders, limiting operations until the ...

(WCL) *

World Customs Organization The World Customs Organization (WCO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. The WCO works on customs-related matters including the development of international conventions, instruments, and tools on topics su ...

(WCO) *

World Federation of Trade Unions The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) is an international federation of trade unions established in 1945. Founded in the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the organization built on the pre-war legacy of the International Federation o ...

(WFTU) *

World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of ...

(WHO) *

World Intellectual Property Organization The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; french: link=no, Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI)) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN). Pursuant to the 1967 Convention Establishi ...

(WIPO) *

World Meteorological Organization The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics. The WMO originated from the Intern ...

(WMO) *

World Tourism Organization The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the United Nations specialized agency entrusted with the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. Its headquarters are in Madrid, Spain. UNWTO is the leading internati ...

(UNWTO) *

World Trade Organization The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. With effective cooperation in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and ...

(WTO)

Law and order in El Salvador

Constitution of El Salvador The current constitution of El Salvador was enacted in 1983 and amended in 2003. The 1983 constitution of El Salvador is similar to that of 1962, often incorporating verbatim passages from the earlier document. The constitution consists of 11 t ...

* Crime in El Salvador **

Illegal drug trade in El Salvador Illegal drug trade in El Salvador has included, according to some sources, trans-shipping of cocaine by the Nicaraguan Contras. CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US Former DEA agent Celerino Castillo alleged that during the 1980s Ilopang ...

* Human rights in El Salvador (see :Human rights in El Salvador **

Abortion in El Salvador Abortion in El Salvador is Law, illegal. The law formerly permitted an abortion to be performed under some limited circumstances, but, in 1998, all exceptions were removed when a new abortion law went into effect.United Nations Population Division. ...

** LGBT rights in El Salvador * Law enforcement in El Salvador

Military of El Salvador

Military of El Salvador The Armed Forces of El Salvador ( es, Fuerza Armada de El Salvador) are the official governmental military forces of El Salvador. The Forces have three branches: the Salvadoran Army, the Salvadoran Air Force and the Navy of El Salvador. History ...

* Command ** Commander-in-chief: *

Armed Forces of El Salvador The Armed Forces of El Salvador ( es, Fuerza Armada de El Salvador) are the official governmental military forces of El Salvador. The Forces have three branches: the Salvadoran Army, the Salvadoran Air Force and the Navy of El Salvador. Histor ...

** Army of El Salvador **

Navy of El Salvador The Navy of El Salvador ( es, Fuerza Naval de El Salvador) is the naval arm of the Armed Forces of El Salvador. The navy was founded on 12 October 1951. Built around craft and duties absorbed from the Salvadoran Coast Guard, the navy is primarily ...

Air Force of El Salvador The Salvadoran Air Force ( es, Fuerza Aérea Salvadoreña, abbreviated FAS) is the air force component of the Armed Forces of El Salvador, and is an independent branch from the army and navy. Early history The Salvadoran Army Air Force ('' es, ...

History of El Salvador

History of El Salvador The history of El Salvador begins with several Mesoamerican nations, especially the Cuzcatlecs, as well as the Lenca and Maya. In the early 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of Ne ...

Culture of El Salvador

Culture of El Salvador * Cuisine of El Salvador * Languages of El Salvador * National symbols of El Salvador ** Coat of arms of El Salvador **

Flag of El Salvador The flag of El Salvador features a horizontal triband of cobalt blue-white- cobalt blue, with the coat of arms centered and entirely contained within the central white stripe. This design of a triband of blue-white-blue is commonly used among ...

National anthem of El Salvador The "" () is the national anthem of El Salvador. The lyrics were written by General Juan José Cañas in 1856, with music composed by the Italian Juan Aberle in 1879. It was adopted on 15 September 1879 and officially approved on 11 December 1 ...

* Prostitution in El Salvador * Religion in El Salvador **

Buddhism in El Salvador Buddhism is practiced throughout Central America. Buddhism's presence in the region was primarily driven by the presence of Chinese immigrant workers during the early 19th century. Presently, Buddhism in the region is primarily of the Mahayana and ...

** Christianity in El Salvador **

Islam in El Salvador El Salvador is a predominantly Christian country, with adherents Islam being a minuscule minority. Due to secular nature of the country's constitution, Muslims are free to proselytize and build places of worship in the country. There is a small Mu ...

** Judaism in El Salvador * World Heritage Sites in El Salvador

Art in El Salvador

* Literature of El Salvador *

Music of El Salvador The music of El Salvador refers to Music of the Republic of El Salvador and is encompassed in the wider Latin American musical traditions. During the colonial period, El Salvador's music began to be influenced by various ethnic groups invol ...

Sports in El Salvador

Specific sports

* Baseball in El Salvador **

El Salvador national baseball team The El Salvador national baseball team is a national team of El Salvador and is controlled by the Federación Salvadoreña de Béisbol. It represents the nation in senior-level men's international competition. The team is a member of the COPABE. ...

* Cricket in El Salvador **

El Salvador national cricket team EL, El or el may refer to: Religion * El (deity), a Semitic word for "God" People * EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer * El DeBarge, music artist * El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American p ...

* Football in El Salvador **

El Salvador national beach soccer team The El Salvador national beach soccer team represents El Salvador in international beach soccer competitions and is controlled by the FESFUT, the governing body for football in El Salvador. Compared to their national association football team ...

** El Salvador national football team *** El Salvador national football team season 2009 *** El Salvador national football team season 2010 *** El Salvador national football team season 2011 *** El Salvador national football team season 2012 *** El Salvador national football team season 2013 ** El Salvador national football team kit **

El Salvador national under-17 football team The El Salvador Under 17's football team, is controlled by Salvadoran Football Federation, Federación Salvadoreña de Fútbol and represents El Salvador in international under-17 or youth football competitions. Tournament Records FIFA U-17 Worl ...

El Salvador national under-20 football team The El Salvador Under 20s football team, more commonly known as La Azulita, is controlled by Federación Salvadoreña de Fútbol and represents El Salvador in international Under 20 or youth football competitions. Their first U-20 World Cup was a ...

El Salvador national under-21 football team The El Salvador national under 21 football team, is the national under-21 football (soccer), football team of El Salvador and is controlled by the Federación Salvadoreña de Fútbol. The team competes in the international under-21 and youth footb ...

El Salvador national under-23 football team The El Salvador national under-23 football team represents El Salvador in international football competitions during Olympic Games and Pan American Games. The team is controlled by the Salvadoran Football Federation. The selection is limited to ...

El Salvador women's national football team El Salvador women's national football team is governed by the Salvadoran Football Federation. Results and fixtures The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled. ;Legen ...

*Rugby League in El Salvador **

El Salvador national rugby league team The El Salvador national rugby league team (''Spanish: rugby league equipo nacional de El Salvador''), nicknamed El Trueno Azul (English: Blue Thunder), represents El Salvador in rugby league. They had their first international 9's tournament i ...

* Rugby Union in El Salvador ** El Salvador national rugby union team

General sports competitions

El Salvador at the Olympics El Salvador first competed in the Olympic Games at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. It has participated in every Summer Olympic Games, Games of the Olympiad since that time, excluding those held in 1976 Summer Olympics, 1976 and 19 ...

** El Salvador at the 1968 Summer Olympics **

El Salvador at the 1972 Summer Olympics El Salvador competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, from 28 July to 12 August 1984. This was the nation's second appearance at the Olympics. Comité Olímpico de El Salvador sent a total of 11 athletes to the Games, all ...

** El Salvador at the 1984 Summer Olympics **

El Salvador at the 1988 Summer Olympics El Salvador competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, from 17 September to 2 October 1988. This was the nation's fourth appearance at the Olympics. Comité Olímpico de El Salvador sent a total of 6 athletes to the Games, 5 ...

El Salvador at the 1992 Summer Olympics El Salvador competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, from 25 July to 9 August 1992. This was the nation's fifth appearance at the Olympics. Comité Olímpico de El Salvador sent a total of 4 athletes to the Games, 3 men ...

El Salvador at the 1996 Summer Olympics El Salvador competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, from 19 July to 4 August 1996. This was the nation's sixth appearance at the Olympics. Comité Olímpico de El Salvador sent a total of 8 athletes to the Gam ...

El Salvador at the 2000 Summer Olympics El Salvador competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, from 15 September to 1 October 2000. This was the nation's seventh appearance at the Olympics. Comité Olímpico de El Salvador sent a total of 8 athletes to the Games, ...

El Salvador at the 2004 Summer Olympics El Salvador competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. This was the nation's eighth appearance at the Olympics. Comité Olímpico de El Salvador sent a total of 7 athletes to the Games, 2 men and 5 ...

El Salvador at the 2008 Summer Olympics El Salvador competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, from 8 to 24 August 2008. This was the nation's ninth appearance at the Olympics. Comité Olímpico de El Salvador sent a total of 11 athletes to the Games, 4 men and 7& ...

El Salvador at the Pan American Games El Salvador at the Pan American Games. At the most recent games in 2019, El Salvador took home 3 gold medals, quadrupling its gold medal count from one to four. The country also took home both gold medals on offer in Bodybuilding at the 2019 Pan A ...

El Salvador at the 2003 Pan American Games The 2003 Pan American Games, 14th Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from August 1 to August 17, 2003. Medals Silver *Women's Recurve Individual: Claudia Landaverde *Women's – 69 kg: Eva Dimas Bronze *Me ...

El Salvador at the 2007 Pan American Games The 2007 Pan American Games, 15th Pan American Games were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 13 July 2007 to 29 July 2007. Medals Gold *Women's 20 km Road Walk: Cristina López (racewalker), Cristina López Silver *Men's – 56 kg: ...

El Salvador at the 2011 Pan American Games El Salvador competed at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico from October 14 to 30, 2011. El Salvador's team consisted of 79 athletes in 22 sports. Medalists Archery El Salvador qualified three male athletes in the archery comp ...

* El Salvador at the Paralympics ** El Salvador at the 2008 Summer Paralympics * El Salvador at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games * El Salvador at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics *

El Salvador at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games El Salvador sent 274 athletes (151 males, 123 females); from the official website of the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games (www.mayaguez2010.com); retrieved 2010-07-26. to the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games, XXIst Central America ...

* El Salvador at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Economy and infrastructure of El Salvador

Economy of El Salvador The economy of El Salvador has experienced relatively low rates of GDP growth, in comparison to other developing countries. Rates have not risen above the low single digits in nearly two decades – part of a broader environment of macroecono ...

* Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 93rd (ninety-third) * Agriculture in El Salvador **

Coffee production in El Salvador Coffee production in El Salvador has fueled the Salvadoran economy and shaped its history for more than a century. Rapidly growing in the 19th century, coffee in El Salvador has traditionally provided more than 50% of the country's export revenu ...

* Banking in El Salvador **

Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador The Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador (Spanish: ''Banco Central de El Salvador'') is the central bank of El Salvador, which controls the currency rate and regulates certain economic activities within El Salvador. The bank was originally private ...

Communications in El Salvador Telecommunications in El Salvador include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet, centered primarily around the capital, San Salvador. Radio and television * Radio stations: Hundreds of commercial radio broadcast stat ...

Internet in El Salvador Telecommunications in El Salvador include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet, centered primarily around the capital, San Salvador. Radio and television * Radio stations: Hundreds of commercial radio broadcast stat ...

Companies of El Salvador A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared go ...

* Energy in El Salvador **

Electricity sector in El Salvador El Salvador's energy sector is largerly focused on renewables. El Salvador is the largest producer of geothermal energy in Central America. Except for hydroelectric generation, which is almost totally owned and operated by the public company C ...

** Geothermal power in El Salvador * Currency of El Salvador:

Dollar Dollar is the name of more than 20 currencies. They include the Australian dollar, Brunei dollar, Canadian dollar, Hong Kong dollar, Jamaican dollar, Liberian dollar, Namibian dollar, New Taiwan dollar, New Zealand dollar, Singapore dollar, ...

** ISO 4217:

USD The United States dollar (symbol: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ or U.S. Dollar, to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official ...

* El Salvador Stock Exchange * Transportation in El Salvador **

Airports in El Salvador This is a list of airports in El Salvador, sorted by location. __TOC__ List See also * Transport in El Salvador * List of airports by ICAO code: M#MS - El Salvador * Wikipedia: WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: North America# ...

Rail transport in El Salvador At present (2022), no trains are operated in El Salvador. The national railroad corporation is FENADESAL (Ferrocarriles Nacionales de El Salvador), a division of CEPA (Comisión Ejecutiva Portuaria Autónoma, port authority). It oversees 554. ...

Water supply and sanitation in El Salvador Access to drinking water and sanitation in El Salvador has been increased significantly. A 2015 conducted study by the University of North Carolina called El Salvador the country that has achieved the greatest progress in the world in terms of i ...

Education in El Salvador

Education in El Salvador Education in El Salvador follows a (1 or 2) 9-2-5 educational system, which is regulated by the country's Ministry of Education: The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) finds that El Salvador is fulfilling only 64.8% of what it should be ful ...

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