Intipucá is a small
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 southwestern
La Unión department of
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de 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 ...
.
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 langua ...
. 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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