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Antiguo Cuscatlán (colloquially known as Antiguo) is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador; its eastern tip lies in the San Salvador Department part of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, southwest of San Salvador and southeast of Santa Tecla. The population was 47,956 at the 2020 census.
The municipalities of El Salvador, called municipios are composed by 262 in total. Each one having its own capital and a variable number of cantons ; these are conformed of caseríos. In June 2023, President Nayib Bukele proposed the reduction of municipal councils to 44, with former municipalities becoming districts.
Over 100,000 or a High Human Development Index, and a high urbanization. AMSS = San Salvador Metropolitan Area Acajutla – Pop. 22,763; Apopa – Pop. 112,158 (AMSS) Antiguo Cuscatlán – Pop. 33,767 (AMSS); [1] highest HDI in the country [citation needed] Ciudad Delgado – Pop. 71,594 (AMSS) Cojutepeque – Pop. 48,411; Cuscatancingo ...
The Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, from San Salvador (volcano) Satellite image of Metropolitan Area of San Salvador. The Metropolitan Area of San Salvador (Área Metropolitana de San Salvador or AMSS) is a metropolitan area formed by San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, and thirteen of its surrounding municipalities. [1]
El Salvador national football team (from 2025) The National Stadium of El Salvador ( Spanish : Estadio Nacional de El Salvador ) is a 50,000-seat multi-purpose stadium under construction in Antiguo Cuscatlán , El Salvador intended as a replacement for the El Salvador national football team 's current stadium, Estadio Cuscatlán .
Historically, El Salvador was divided into 262 municipalities, each with a local municipal council responsible for governance and community services. However, on 1 June 2023, President Nayib Bukele announced a proposal to reduce the number of municipalities to streamline administrative efficiency and reduce bureaucratic overhead. Bukele argued ...
The total land area of El Salvador is 23,041 km 2, with 20,721 km 2 of land and 320 km 2 of water. El Salvador is about the size of Israel and the U.S. states of New Jersey and Vermont, but has the population size of Libya and Lebanon. El Salvador has 590 km of borders, including 391 km of borders with Honduras and 199 km with Guatemala. El ...
A map of the former locality. Canton El Tablón belonged to the municipality of Suchitoto, Cuscatlán, El Salvador.Canton El Tablón was one of many cantons in the surrounding area that was flooded as a result of the Cerrón Grande Hydroelectric Dam built in El Salvador between 1972 and 1976 that created the artificial Cerrón Grande Reservoir.