Intipucá is a small
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in the southwestern
La Unión department
La Unión () is the easternmost department of El Salvador. Its capital is La Unión. It covers a total of and has a population of 263,200. The department was created on June 22, 1865, and the city of La Unión was made its capital. The Con ...
of
El Salvador
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is S ...
.
Etymology
Intipucá is a cognate of the
Intibucá department of neighboring Honduras and is an alternate spelling of the same term in the
Lenca language
The Lencan languages are a small linguistic family from Central America, whose speakers before the Spanish conquest spread throughout El Salvador and Honduras. But by the beginning of the 20th century, only two languages of the family survived, ...
. However, due to historical events, the indigenous peoples and their languages are neither recognized nor self identified in El Salvador.
References
Municipalities of the La Unión Department
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