Caluco is a city and
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in the
Sonsonate department
Sonsonate () is a department of El Salvador in the western part of the country. The capital is Sonsonate.
The department has an area of 1,226 km².
Created on June 12, 1824, the El Salvador National Parliament decided on January 29, 1859 ...
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 ...
.
According to the 2007 Population and Housing Census, it has a population of 9,139.
History
Caluco was a producer of
cocoa
Cocoa may refer to:
Chocolate
* Chocolate
* ''Theobroma cacao'', the cocoa tree
* Cocoa bean, seed of ''Theobroma cacao''
* Chocolate liquor, or cocoa liquor, pure, liquid chocolate extracted from the cocoa bean, including both cocoa butter and ...
.
Caluco, which in colonial times was at the peak of Salvadoran cocoa production and export, also holds a treasure of cultural heritage: the ruins of the first church in El Salvador.
Area
The municipality is 51.43 km
2 (19.86 mi
2) large.
References
Municipalities of the Sonsonate Department
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