Izalco (in Nawat: Itzalku) is a municipality in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador. Volcan Izalco is an icon of the country of El Salvador, a very young Volcano on the flank of Santa Ana volcano.
Population: 19,197
Latitude: 13° 44' 40.99" N
Longitude: -89° 40' 23.02" W
The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (in Spanish: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional, FMLN) is, since 1992, a centre-left to left-wing political party in El Salvador and formerly a coalition of five guerrilla organizations. …
The Santa Ana Volcano or Ilamatepec (Spanish: volcán de Santa Ana) is a large cinder cone volcano located in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador. At 2,381 metres above sea level, it is the highest volcano in the country.
Acajutla is a seaport and municipality in Sonsonate Department, El Salvador. The town is located at (13°35′24″N89°50′01″W) on the Pacific Coast of Central America and is El Salvador's principal seaport from which a large portion of the nation's exp…
This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in El Salvador.
Coatepeque De Coatepeque (Nahuatl cōātepēc, "at the snake hill") is a volcanic caldera in El Salvador in Central America. The caldera was formed during a series of major rhyolitic explosive eruptions between about 72,000 and 57,000 years ago. Since …
Joya de Cerén (Jewel of Cerén in the Spanish language) is an archaeological site in La Libertad Department, El Salvador, featuring a pre-Columbian Maya farming village preserved remarkably intact under layers of volcanic ash.
Santa Tecla is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador.
Izalco is a stratovolcano on the side of the Santa Ana Volcano, which is located in western El Salvador. It is situated on the southern flank of the Santa Ana volcano. Izalco erupted almost continuously from 1770 (when it formed) to 1958 earning it …
The San Salvador Volcano (also known as Quetzaltepec ) is a stratovolcano situated northwest to the city of San Salvador. The crater has been nearly filled with a relatively newer edifice, the Boquerón volcano. The city of San Salvador is adjacent t…
Ahuachapán is a city and municipality and the capital of the Ahuachapán Department in western El Salvador. The municipality including the city covers an area of 244.84 km² and as of 2007 has a population of 110,511 people.
San Andrés (formerly known as Campana San Andrés) is a pre-Columbian site in El Salvador, whose occupation began around the year 900 BC as an agricultural town in the valley of Zapotitán in the department of La Libertad. This early establishment was…
Cordillera de Apaneca is a volcanic mountain range in western El Salvador. It consists mainly of volcanoes.
The Cuzcatlan was a pre-Columbian Nahuat nation of the Post-Classical period that extended from the Paz river to the Lempa river (covering most of the western and central zones of the present Republic of El Salvador), this was the nation of Pipils/C…
Sonsonate, the capital of the department of Sonsonate, El Salvador; on the river Sensunapan and the railway from San Salvador to the Pacific port of Acajutla, 21 km (13 mi) south. Pop.
"José Simeón Cañas" Central American University (Spanish: Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas"), also known as UCA El Salvador, is a private university with nonprofit purposes in San Salvador, El Salvador, run by the Society of Jesus. It …
Cara Sucia is a Mesoamerican archaeological site in western El Salvador. The site was first settled in the Preclassic period and was finally abandoned around AD 900, in the Terminal Classic, when the Pipil people moved into the region, although ther…
Nahuizalco is a municipality in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador.
Juayúa is a municipality in the Sonsonate department of El Salvador. Juayua is a quaint little town up in the mountains, founded in 1577. The town's central plaza faces an old white cathedral that features a black Christ statue. This statue is a sis…