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Pupusas
A pupusa is a thick griddle cake or flatbread from El Salvador and Honduras made with cornmeal or rice flour, similar to the Colombian and Venezuelan arepa. In El Salvador, it has been declared the national dish and has a specific day to celebrate it. It is usually stuffed with one or more ingredients, which may include cheese (such as or cheese with buds), , squash, or refried beans. It is typically accompanied by (a spicy fermented cabbage slaw) and tomato salsa, and is traditionally eaten by hand. Etymology The exact origin of the term is unknown. The , published by the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, states that pupusa derives from the Nawat word meaning "fluffy" or "fluffy thing". In her book ''Interlude and Other Verses'', Lidia Pérez de Novoa believed that pupusa derives from the Nawat word meaning "to puff up". Salvadoran linguist Jorge Lemus argued that the word pupusa does not have Nawat roots, stating that the Pipil people referred t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 San Salvador. The country's population in 2024 was estimated to be 6 million according to a government census. Among the Mesoamerican nations that historically controlled the region are the Maya peoples, Maya, and then the Cuzcatlan, Cuzcatlecs. Archaeological monuments also suggest an early Olmec presence around the first millennium BC. In the beginning of the 16th century, the Spanish conquest of El Salvador, Spanish Empire conquered the Central American territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. However, the Viceroyalty of New Spain had little to no influence in the daily affairs of the isthmus, which was colonized in 1524. In 1609, the area was declared the Captaincy General of Guatemala by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvadoran American
Salvadoran Americans ( or ) are Americans of full or partial El Salvador, Salvadoran descent. As of 2021, there are 2,473,947 Salvadoran Americans in the United States, the Hispanic and Latino Americans#National origin, third-largest Hispanic community by nation of ancestry. According to the Census Bureau, in 2021 Salvadorans made up 4.0% of the total Hispanic population in the United States. Salvadorans are the largest group of Central Americans of the Central American Isthmus community in the U.S. The largest Salvadoran populations are in the metropolitan areas of Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles and Washington metropolitan area, Washington, D.C., which have been established since the 1970s and currently number in the hundreds of thousands, as well as other Central Americans such as Guatemalan Americans, Guatemalan and Honduran Americans, Honduran Americans. Salvadorans are concentrated in California (32% of the nationwide Salvadoran population), Texas (15%), Maryland (8%) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Dish
A national dish is a culinary Dish (food), dish that is strongly associated with a particular country. A dish can be considered a national dish for a variety of reasons: * It is a staple food, made from a selection of locally available foodstuffs that can be prepared in a distinctive way, such as ''fruits de mer'', served along the west coast of France. * It contains a particular ingredient that is produced locally, such as a paprika grown in the European Pyrenees. * It is served as a Festival, festive culinary tradition that forms part of a cultural heritage—for example, barbecues at summer camp or fondue at Party#Dinner party, dinner parties—or as part of a Religion, religious practice, such as Korban Pesach or Iftar celebrations. * It has been promoted as a national dish, by the country itself, such as the promotion of fondue as a national dish of Switzerland by the Swiss Cheese Union (Schweizerische Käseunion) in the 1930s. National dishes are part of National identity, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtido
Curtido () is a type of lightly fermented cabbage relish. It is typical in Salvadoran cuisine and that of other Central American countries, and is usually made with cabbage, onions, carrots, oregano, and sometimes lime juice; it resembles sauerkraut, '' kimchi'', pikliz or tart coleslaw. It is commonly served alongside '' pupusas'',Bain, Jennifer and Filson, Jon (September 18, 2002). "Pupusa festival leads to Venezuelan arepas". ''Torontohello Star''. the national delicacy. left, Curtido, in this example, is made with onions, chillies and carrots. This is in a pupusería in Olocuilta, El Salvador Fellow Central American country Belize Belize is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a maritime boundary with Honduras to the southeast. P ... has a similar recipe called "curtido" by its Spanish speakers; however, it is a spicy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pipil People
The Pipil are an Indigenous group of Mesoamerican people inhabiting the western and central areas of present-day El Salvador and Nicaragua. They are a subgroup of the larger Nahua ethnic group. They speak the Nawat language, which is a closely related but distinct language from the Nahuatl of Central Mexico. There are very few speakers of Nawat left, but there are efforts being made to revitalize it. At the time of the Spanish conquest, the Pipil were also present around Escuintla, Guatemala and in various parts of Honduras. The Nawat language has already gone extinct in these countries, but there is a small population of acculturated Nahuas in eastern Honduras. Their cosmology is related to that of the Toltec, Maya and Lenca. History Indigenous accounts recorded by Spanish chronicler Gonzalo Francisco de Oviedo suggest that the Pipil of El Salvador migrated from present-day Mexico to their current locations beginning around the 8th century A.D. They traveled from curre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvadoran Civil War
The Salvadoran Civil War () was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of left-wing guerilla groups backed by Cuba, Cuba under Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Union. A 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état, coup on 15 October 1979 followed by government killings of anti-coup protesters is widely seen as the start of civil war. The war did not formally end until after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapse of the Soviet Union, when, on 16 January 1992 the Chapultepec Peace Accords were signed in Mexico City. The United Nations (UN) reports that the war killed more than 75,000 people between 1979 and 1992, along with approximately 8,000 disappeared persons. Human rights violations, particularly the kidnapping, torture, and murder of suspected FMLN sympathizers by state security forces and paramilitary death squads – were per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lempa River
The Lempa River () is a river in Central America. It is a transboundary river shared by El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Geography Its sources are located in between the Sierra Madre and the Sierra del Merendón mountain ranges in southern Guatemala, near the town of Olopa. In Guatemala, the river is called Olopa River and flows southwards for before entering Honduras and changing its name to Lempa River at . In Honduras, it flows through the Ocotepeque Department for , and crosses the border with El Salvador at the town of Citalá () in the Chalatenango Department. The river continues its course for another in El Salvador, flowing in a generally southwards direction until it reaches the Pacific Ocean in the San Vicente Department. The river forms a small part of the international boundary between El Salvador and Honduras. The river's watershed covers of which , that is, 56.56% of the watershed territory, lie in El Salvador; in Honduras; and in Guatemala. 49% of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granada Department
Granada () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of and has a population of 215,965 (2021 estimate). The capital is the city of Granada, one of North America's oldest cities. Municipalities # Diria # Diriomo # Granada Granada ( ; ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada (Spain), Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence ... # Nandaime References Departments of Nicaragua {{Nicaragua-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivas Department
Rivas () is a Departments of Nicaragua, department of the Republic of Nicaragua. It covers an area of and has a population of 183,611 (2021 estimate). The department's capital is the city of Rivas, Nicaragua, Rivas. The indigenous inhabitants of Rivas are the Nicarao people, Nicarao, and was the location of the pre-Columbian Nahuas, Nahua chiefdoms of Kwawkapolkan and Kakawatan. History In the pre-Columbian era, Rivas was home to the Nicarao people, Nahua nations of Kwawkapolkan, and Kakawatan, as well as neighbouring Chibchan languages, Chibcha tribes. Kwawkapolkan was the most powerful chiefdom in pre-Columbian Nicaragua, ruled by chief Macuilmiquiztli, and translates to "place of capulín trees" in Nawat language, Nawat. It's a combination of the Nawat words ''Kwawit'' (tree), ''kapolin'' (:es: Prunus salicifolia, capulín), and ''-kan'' (a locative meaning "place of"). Kwawkapolkan extended from Rivas department, Rivas down to Bagaces (canton), Bagaces in central Guanacaste p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masaya Department
Masaya () is a department in Nicaragua. It is the country's smallest department by area (611 km2) and has a population of 397,632 (2021 estimate). The capital is the city of Masaya. It is famous among Nicaraguan people for its nickname, "La Cuna Del Folklore" which translates to (The Cradle of Folklore). It is also the site of the Masaya Volcano, an active 635m volcano which last erupted in 2016. The Indigenous inhabitants of Masaya are the Nahuas and the Chorotegas, and was the location of the pre-Columbian In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, or as the pre-Cabraline era specifically in Brazil, spans from the initial peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to the onset of European col ... Nahua chiefdom of Masatepek. The Nahuas dominate the cultivation and production of cocoa beans in the municipality of Masatepe. Municipalities # Catarina # La Concepción # Masatepe # Masaya # Nandasmo # Nin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Batres Montúfar
José Batres Montúfar (1809–1844) was a Guatemalan poet, politician, engineer and military figure. Monument In 1852, Juan Matheu and Manuel Francisco Pavón Aycinena presented Rafael Carrera with a plan to build a majestic National Theater, that would be called Carrera Theater in his honor. Once approved, Carrera commissioned Matheu himself and Miguel Ruiz de Santisteban to build the theater. Initially it was in charge of engineer Miguel Rivera Maestre, but he quit after a few months and was replaced by German expert José Beckers, who built the Greek façades and added a lobby. This was the first monumental building ever built in the Republican era of Guatemala, given that in the 1850s the country finally was enjoying some peace and prosperity. Appleton's Guide to México and Guatemala of 1884 describes the theater as follows: «In the middle of the square is the Theater, similar in size and elegance to any of the rest of Spanish America. Lines of orange trees and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
