San Bartolomé Perulapía is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
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. Cuscatlán or Cuzcatlán was the name the original inhabitants of the Western part of the c ...
of
El Salvador
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. It is located on the highway between San Martín and
Suchitoto
Suchitoto is a municipality in the Department of Cuscatlán, El Salvador that has seen continuous human habitation long before Spanish colonization. Within its municipal territory, Suchitoto holds the site of the original founding of the Villa ...
.
The following statistics are for a city of the same name within the municipality:
Municipality statistics
*Population: 12,000 (according to mayorship) or 6909 (according to SIBASI 2001)
*One Hospital
*Two Schools
*Ten Churches
*Water, electricity, phone services
*Two
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groups
*A police force
*A court
History
When the Spanish conquistadors came, the location was part of three native towns called ''pupulapan''. The towns were then called, by the Europeans, San Martín, San Pedro, y San Bartolomé Perulapán, also called pupulapía, y transformed into ''perulapía''. In 1770 Pedro Cortés y Larraz estimated that the population was 421 natives and 6 Latinos in population.
It was part of the department of San Salvador from 1824 until 1835, at which time it was turned over to Cuscatlán. Because of an earthquake in 1872, the town was moved a kilometer from its original location. Its population was 960 inhabitants in 1890.
External links
http://www.gobernacion.gob.sv/observatorio/Iniciativas%20Locales/WEB/Cuscatl%C3%A1n/snbartolomeperulapia.htmInformation
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Municipalities of the Cuscatlán Department