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El Salvador is a popular destination for surf tourism due to the large waves present in the Pacific Ocean. Alegría Lake "The Emerald of America". Lake Coatepeque in the west of the country The San Miguel (volcano) during the eruption of December 29, 2013. the photographer snapped this picture of the Los Chorros Water Falls, which is only a few ...
It was created in 1946 with a design inspired by the European and North American Garden city movement. [citation needed]In the early 1980s a process of commercialization of the area began, replacing the houses located on Boulevard del Hipódromo with restaurants and bars, and since then the area has been known by the name of Zona Rosa.
1833-1834: A short lived Department of Tejutla was established from the districts of Metapan and Tejutla in San Salvador. [2] January 22, 1835: The Federal District of San Salvador is separated both from San Salvador department and from the State of Salvador. The remainder of San Salvador department is renamed to Cuscatlan, and Metapan district ...
El Puerto de La Libertad was the first port built in El Salvador. It has evolved into a fishing boat port, a farmers market, and a tourist attraction. Two newer ports in the country have replaced it economically, La Union and Puerto de Acajutla. The original pier was built in 1869, but over time the structure deteriorated and was replaced by a ...
The department is 2,077 km 2 in area and has a population of over 678,000. Before the Spanish conquest of El Salvador, the territory that now consists of the departments of San Miguel, La Unión and Morazán was the Lenca kingdom of Chaparrastique (Place of Beautiful Orchids). [1] San Miguel was first known as San Miguel de la Frontera.
Nuevo Cuscatlán is a municipality of El Salvador, belonging to the department of La Libertad, it is located 13 kilometers from San Salvador. [1] It borders to the north and east with Antiguo Cuscatlán, to the south with Huizúcar and San José Villanueva and to the west with Santa Tecla.
San Juan Opico (or Opico) is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador.. It is located 42 kilometers from San Salvador, capital of the country.The municipality has an area of 218 km 2 and a population of 74,280 inhabitants; according to the 2007 census it is ranked No. 13 in population.
San Vicente (Spanish pronunciation: [sam biˈsente]) is a municipality in the San Vicente department of El Salvador. It was founded by 50 Spanish families in 1635 under the Tempisque tree, which is still standing today.