Portal:El Salvador

The El Salvador portal Republic of El Salvador República de El Salvador  (Spanish) Flag Coat of arms Motto: "Dios, Unión, Libertad" (Spanish) English: "God, Union, Liberty" Anthem: Himno Nacional de El Salvador (English: "National Anthem of El Salvador") ISO 3166 code SV El Salvador (/ɛl ˈsælvədɔːr/ (listen); Spanish: [el salβaˈðoɾ] (listen), meaning "The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador (Spanish: 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 the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2021 is estimated to be 6.8 million. Among the Mesoamerican nations that historically controlled the region are the Lenca (after 600 AD), the Mayans, and then the Cuzcatlecs. Archaeological monuments also suggest an early Olmec presence around the first millennium BC. In the beginning of the 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the Central American territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. However the Viceroyalty of Mexico 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 Spanish, which included the territory that would become El Salvador until its independence from Spain in 1821. It was forcibly incorporated into the First Mexican Empire, then seceded, joining the Federal Republic of Central America in 1823. When the federation dissolved in 1841, El Salvador became a sovereign state, then formed a short-lived union with Honduras and Nicaragua called the Greater Republic of Central America, which lasted from 1895 to 1898. (Full article...) Selected article - The El Salvador national football team (Spanish: Selección de fútbol de El Salvador) represents El Salvador in international football, and is governed by the Salvadoran Football Federation (FESFUT). In 1899, two teams from Santa Ana and San Salvador met for the first known football game in El Salvador. The national team's first match was played in September 1921, when they were invited to participate in a tournament to celebrate 100 years of Central American Independence. (Full article...) List of selected articles Spanish conquest of El Salvador Schafik Jorge Handal Roque Dalton Joya de Cerén Salvadoran Civil War San Salvador Sumpul River massacre La Prensa Grafica El Salvador at the 2016 Summer Paralympics President of El Salvador Cabañas Department Santa Ana, El Salvador 1932 Salvadoran peasant massacre Ilopango International Airport Soyapango Truth Commission for El Salvador Nationalist Republican Alliance Armed Forces of El Salvador Coffee production in El Salvador Football War Crime in El Salvador Tazumal Avianca El Salvador San Salvador (volcano) January 2001 El Salvador earthquake Cerro El Pital Hospital El Salvador Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador Selected image - Aerial view of Coatepeque Caldera A street view in Usulután A view of Chinameca, a stratovolcano Llano del Muerto waterfall in Perquín municipality A landslide caused by one of the 2001 El Salvador earthquakes U.N. map of El Salvador Meanguera del Golfo island and Pirigallo island A view of volcanoes near Usulután, El Salvador, by NASA Earth Observatory Two lions at El Salvador's national zoo A view of El Imposible National Park The cathedral of Santa Ana, El Salvador Usulután, a stratovolcano in central El Salvador A view of San Miguel, El Salvador WikiProjects Wikipedia:WikiProject Central America El Salvador news July 4, 2022 – 2022 Atlantic hurricane season El Salvador suspends classes as Hurricane Bonnie passes through Central America. Deaths have been reported in Nicaragua and El Salvador. (Infobae) April 16, 2022 – 2022 Salvadoran gang crackdown President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele announces that 12,169 gang members have been arrested since the state of emergency began on March 27. (Europa Press) March 27, 2022 – Crime in El Salvador El Salvador declares a state of emergency after 62 people were murdered in the country yesterday, making it the most violent 24-hour period since the end of the civil war in 1992. (BBC News) Did you know... ...that El Salvador is one of the most densely populated countries in Latin America, and also one of the most industrialized? ...that El Salvador uses the U.S. Dollar as its currency? ...that the department of Sonsonate is known for its coconuts? ...that Roque Dalton, one of El Salvador's most beloved writers, was imprisoned and persecuted by the Salvadoran Communist Guerrilla? ...that El Salvador and Honduras fought a war in 1969? 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