Chalatenango Sur
Southern Chalatenango () is one of the 44 municipalities of El Salvador. This municipality is made up of 20 districts Arcatao, Azacualpa, El Salvador, Azacualpa, San José Cancasque, Chalatenango, Chalatenango, Chalatenango, Comalapa, El Salvador, Comalapa, Concepción Quezaltepeque, El Carrizal, El Salvador, El Carrizal, La Laguna, El Salvador, La Laguna, Las Vueltas, Las Flores, El Salvador, Las Flores, Nombre de Jesús, Nueva Trinidad, Ojos de Agua, El Salvador, Ojos de Agua, Potonico, San Antonio de la Cruz, San Antonio Los Ranchos, San Francisco Lempa, San Isidro Labrador, El Salvador, San Isidro Labrador, San Luis del Carmen and San Miguel de Mercedes. The municipality comprises the largest amount of districts within the entire country. The municipality arise as part of reducing the amount of municipalities in El Salvador. Its leader is Milton Serrano. "El Salvador se reduce a 44 nuevos municipios ¿Cómo se llama el suyo, qué distritos incluye y quién lo gobernará?" https ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chalatenango Department
Chalatenango () is a department of El Salvador located in the northwest of the country. The department's capital city is the city of Chalatenango, which shares the same name as the department. Chalatenango covers a land area of and contains over 185,930 inhabitants. Chalatenango's maximum elevation, located at Cerro El Pital (the country's highest point), is . Amílcar Iván Monge Monge of Nuevas Ideas has been the governor of Chalatenango since 2020. Etymology The name Chalatenango derives from the Nawat words or meaning "sand", meaning "water" or "river", and meaning "valley". In its entirety, "Chalatenango" means "valley of sandy waters". History The indigenous peoples of the Americas had lived in the region of the modern-day Chalatenango department for over one thousand five hundred years before the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s. The indigenous people of the area lived in densely populated communities and cultivated maize. From 1524 to 1539, the Sp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Comalapa, El Salvador
Comalapa is a town and municipality in the Chalatenango Department of El Salvador. The municipality Comalapa is bordered by the following municipalities: to the north, Dulce Nombre de Maria; to the east, La Laguna; to the south, Concepción Quezatepeque; to the West, Santa Rita and Dulce Nombre de Maria. The territorial extension of the municipality is 28.22 km.² In 2005 the population was 4,516 inhabitants. The municipality is divided into 4 cantons and 20 caseríos. History of Comalapa The civilization of El Salvador dates from the Pre-Columbian Era, from around 1500 BC. On May 31, 1522, the first of the Spanish, under the leadership of Captain Pedro de Alvarado, disembarked on the Isla Meanguera, located in the Gulf of Fonseca. In June 1524 Captain Alvarado began a war of conquest against the indigenous people of Cuzcatlán (land of precious things). After 17 days of bloody battles many people died but the Spanish were not defeated, so they continued their conquest. Dur ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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San Luis Del Carmen
San Luis del Carmen is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador 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 S .... References External links {{Chalatenango Department Municipalities of the Chalatenango Department ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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San Isidro Labrador, El Salvador
San Isidro Labrador is a Municipalities of El Salvador, municipality in the Chalatenango Department, Chalatenango department of El Salvador. Municipalities of the Chalatenango Department {{ElSalvador-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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San Antonio Los Ranchos
San Antonio Los Ranchos is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador 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 S .... {{Chalatenango Department Municipalities of the Chalatenango Department ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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San Antonio De La Cruz
San Antonio de la Cruz is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador 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 S .... Municipalities of the Chalatenango Department {{ElSalvador-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ojos De Agua, El Salvador
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 Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ... to "Water Eyes." {{Chalatenango Department Municipalities of the Chalatenango Department ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nueva Trinidad
Nueva Trinidad is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador 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 S .... {{Chalatenango Department Municipalities of the Chalatenango Department ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Las Flores, El Salvador
San José Las Flores (or Las Flores) is a municipality and city in Chalatenango Department, El Salvador. It played an important and strategic role during the Salvadoran Civil War. The town was one of the first settlements to be repopulated by refugees A refugee, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is a person "forced to flee their own country and seek safety in another country. They are unable to return to their own country because of feared persecution as ... who had been driven away by government bombing during the early 1980s. In 1986, in defiance of the military, the civilian population returned to reconstruct the village. This was part of a campaign of a number of towns throughout northern El Salvador, with the assistance of humanitarian groups in North America and Europe, to resist the militarization of the area and prevent continued bombing during the war. For this reason, a number of U.S. cities became sister cities with Salvad ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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La Laguna, El Salvador
La Laguna is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador. Administrative Organization *La Laguna (Urban Center) *La Cuchilla *Pacayas *Los Prados *Plan Verde *San José The urban center is divided into districts: *Barrio El Centro *Barrio Las Victorias *Barrio Los Guevara *Barrio Las Delicias Essentials The municipality has an area of 25.82 km2. Population The population of the municipality is 5240 inhabitants until 2006. The population density is 202.94 inhabitants per square kilometer. History It tells the story that in 1807 the canton Loma Lisa or Santiago belonged to the party of Chalatenango. In 1816 it emerged as the village by the name of La Laguna. From 12 June 1824 to 22 May 1835, belonged to the department of San Salvador and then to the February 14, 1855 the department of Cuscatlán, being annexed after this date by the Chalatenango department since its inception. On August 14, 1845, the town was burned by Honduran forces. In view ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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El Carrizal, El Salvador
El Carrizal is a municipality located in the department of Chalatenango in the North of El Salvador. Municipality El Carrizal is a municipality in the department of Usulutan, El Salvador, bordered to the north and east by Honduras; to the southeast by Ojos de Agua and Las Vueltas; and to the west and northwest by La Laguna. It has a territorial extensión of 25.32 km2. For its administration the municipality is divided into four cantones and 22 caseríos, but according to the Parcipative Development Plan with Strategic Project for the Municipality of El Carrizal, only 18 caseríos exist. History The civilization of El Salvador dates from the Pre-Columbian Era, from around 1500 BC, according to experts (Embajada). On May 31, 1522, the first of the Spanish, under the leadership of Captain Pedro de Alvarado, disembarked on the Isla Meanguera, located in the Gulf of Fonseca (Embajada). In June 1524 Captain Alvarado began a war of conquest against the indigenous people of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Concepción Quezaltepeque
Concepción Quezaltepeque is a municipality in the department of Chalatenango in the north of El Salvador. It is bordered to the north by Comalapa and La Laguna, to the east by Las Vueltas and Chalatenango, to the south by Chalatenango, and to the west by Santa Rita. The territorial extension of the municipality is 52.54 km2. In 2005 the population was 6,734 inhabitants. The municipality's administration is divided into 6 cantons and 14 caserío. History The civilization of El Salvador dates from the Pre-Columbian era, from around 1500 BC, according to experts (Embajada). On May 31, 1522, a Spanish troop, under the leadership of Captain Pedro de Alvarado, disembarked on the Isla Meanguera, located in the Golf of Fonseca (Embajada). In June 1524 Captain Alvarado began a war of conquest against the indigenous people of Cuzcatlán (land of precious things). After 17 days of bloody battles many people died but the Spanish were not defeated, so they continued their conqu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |