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On July 19, 1975, while television audiences from around the world watched the finale of the Miss Universe pageant in El Salvador, [4] [2] students in Santa Ana and San Salvador protested the government expenditure of 1 million colones ($114,393.10 USD in 2023) on the beauty contest during a context of great social inequality.
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 San Salvador. The country's population in 2024 was estimated to be 6 million according to a government ...
The University of El Salvador (UES) is the oldest and the most prominent university institution in El Salvador.It serves as the national university of the country. The main campus, Ciudad Universitaria, is located in the capital of San Salvador, but there are also branches of the university in other Salvadoran cities such as Santa Ana, San Miguel and San Vicente.
The Technological University of El Salvador or Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador, is a higher education center in El Salvador, known as UTEC or "la Tecno", owned by a private capital company. The university campus is located in San Salvador and has ten classroom buildings, an auditorium, a library, specialized laboratories, a cultural ...
El Salvador has a total of 545 km of boundaries, of which 203 km are in the border with Guatemala, and 342 km are in the border with Honduras. The coastline is 307 km long. El Salvador claims a territorial sea of 12 nm, a contiguous zone of 24 nm and an exclusive economic zone of 200 nm for the commercial exploitation of marine life.
In 1975, the two companies merged into FENADESAL - Ferrocarriles Nacionales de El Salvador. At present, this agency oversees 554.8 km of disused tracks, connecting major cities and formerly linked to Guatemala railroads at Anguiatú. The railroads in El Salvador were of narrow gauge, 914 mm (3 ft), the same as Guatemala. The line from Texis ...
Estudiantes was a team founded by Fundación Educando a un Salvadoreño, otherwise known as FESA. It was created with the hope of helping develop young players and FESA scholarship holders into professional footballers. After only one season, Estudiantes sold their spot in the Segunda División to Once Lobos. [1] They have since ceased operations.
In 2005 the Salvadoran government began a new port at La Unión which was to have more than double the cargo capacity of the old and exceed that of El Salvador's principal port at Acajutla. Completed in November 2012, the port has since helped increase local economic growth and stability, though competition from nearby San Miguel remains strong.