Verapaz is a
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
San Vincente department 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 ...
. Verapaz means 'true peace' (from Spanish 'verdadera'
rueand 'paz'
eace. It has been the site of two recent natural disasters;
an earthquake measuring 6.6 on the
Moment magnitude scale
The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted explicitly with or Mwg, and generally implied with use of a single M for magnitude) is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude ("size" or strength) based on its seismic moment. was defined in a 1979 paper ...
on 13 February 2001 and the
2009 Salvador floods and mudslides in November 2009.
References
Municipalities of the San Vicente Department
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