Intipucá is a small
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the southwestern
La Unión department
La Unión () is a department of El Salvador. It is located in the eastern part of the country and its capital is La Unión. It covers a total of and has a population of 263,200. The department was created on June 22, 1865, and the city of L ...
of
El Salvador.
Etymology
Intipucá is a cognate of the
Intibucá department of neighboring Honduras and is an alternate spelling of the same term in the
Lenca language
Lencan is a small family of nearly extinct indigenous Mesoamerican languages.
Languages
There are two attested Lencan languages, both extinct (Campbell 1997:167).
* Salvadoran Lencan was spoken in Chilanga and Potó (thus the alternative lang ...
. However, due to historical events, the indigenous peoples and their languages are neither recognized nor self identified in El Salvador.
References
Municipalities of the La Unión Department
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