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The geology of El Salvador is underlain by rocks dating to the Paleozoic. Prior to the Pennsylvanian , sediments deposited and were intensely deformed, intruded by granite rocks and metamorphosed. Northern Central America took shape during uplift in the Triassic , large than its current area and extending east to the Nicaragua Rise.
Ciudad Vieja (Spanish for "Old City") is an archaeological site located roughly 10 km south of Suchitoto, in the Cuscatlán Department of central El Salvador. [1] The site served as the first location of San Salvador , now the Central American nation's capital.
After this, Filísola's forces attacked Callejon del Diablo [5] which was poorly defended by 20 Salvadorans. After 2 hours of combat, the position was taken. [1] Vicente Filísola followed through Mejicanos, where the Salvadorans were completely defeated, after this on February 9, Filísola entered in San Salvador and declared it annexed to the First Mexican Empire.
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 ...
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San Salvador, El Salvador: Fundación Nacional de Arqueología de El Salvador. Retrieved on 11 April 2016. Amaroli B., Paúl E.; and Olsen Bruhns, Karen (2013) "450 Years Too Soon: Mixteca-Puebla Style Polychrome Ceramics in El Salvador". Anales del Instituto Investigaciones Estéticas [online], Vol. 35, No. 103, pp. 231–249. Mexico City ...
The 1917 San Salvador earthquake occurred on June 7 at 18:55 local time near the Salvadoran capital. The hypocenter of the M w 6.7 was at a shallow depth of 15 km (9.3 mi), and occurred along a shallow crustal fault near San Salvador .
El Salvador accepted the convention on October 8, 1991, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. As of 2024, El Salvador has only one World Heritage Site, Joya de Cerén, which was inscribed in 1993. [2]