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There are four primary lakes in El Salvador including the Ilopango (72 km 2), Guija (44 km 2), Coatepeque (24.8 km 2), , Olomega ( 24.2 km 2) and four reservoirs created by hydroelectric dams discussed in more detail below. El Salvador also obtains about 7.5 km 3 of surface water per year from neighboring Honduras and Guatemala. [8]
The dominant service provider is the Administración Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (ANDA), which provides services to 40 percent of the total population of El Salvador in 149 out of the country's 262 municipalities, including the metropolitan area of San Salvador and the country's other two main cities, Santa Ana and San Miguel. As ...
Ojos de Agua is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador. It is about 1700 feet (or about 1.1 kilometers) from the border of Honduras and El Salvador, which is formed by the Rio Sumpul. The name "Ojos de Agua" translates from Spanish to "Water Eyes."
Agua Caliente is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador. Agua Caliente, El Salvador is a town north of Chalatenango, the capital city of the department of Chalatenango, North East of Nueva Concepcion. It occupies an area of 195 square kilometers, and has a population (2006) of 8,992. [1]
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.
The village of Ojos de Agua was designated as a formal town in 1867, although in 1855 the Presbyterian doctor Isidro Méndez declared it to be a town of the department of Chalatenango. From May 12, 1902 until April 23, 1906, Ojos de Agua annexed the cantón El Zapotal, along with El Coyolar and Yurique, segregating them from the municipality of ...
About 47% of the population of El Salvador identifies as Roman Catholic, and another 38% identify as Protestant. [13] But in the last few years the population of Catholicism has been reduced (USBDHRL). There is a lot of Protestant activity in the country, and El Salvador has one of the highest rates of Protestantism in Latin America. [14]
Panchimalco is a town in the San Salvador department of El Salvador.. Panchimalco ("The Place of Flags and Shields," from the Nahuatl, "Pantli," meaning banner or flag; "Chimalli," meaning shield or herald, and "co," place) Its 35,000 inhabitants, sometimes called "Panchos," are descendants of Pipil Indians fleeing the Spanish takeover of San Salvador during the 16th century, into areas ...