San Salvador (El Salvador

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Information for Authority record
Name (Latin)
San Salvador (El Salvador : Department)
Other forms of name
San Salvador (El Salvador : Dept.)
nnaa San Salvador (Department)
Coordinates
-89.19142778 -89.19142778 13.69896389 13.69896389 (gooearth )
W0891100 W0891100 N0134700 N0134700 (geonames )
Associated country
El Salvador
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 153630525
Wikidata: Q1543219
Library of congress: n 82117121
Sources of Information
  • Arocha, A. R. La Repúb. de El Salvador, 1975 or 1976:
  • BGN req., 7/27/82
  • BGN gaz., El Salvador, 1956
Wikipedia description:

San Salvador (Spanish pronunciation: [san salβaˈðoɾ]) is a department of El Salvador in the west central part of the country. The capital is San Salvador, which is also the national capital. The department has North of the Rio Lempa Valley, the "Valle de las Hamacas" (Hammock Valley) and a section of Lake Ilopango. Some of the department's cities that are densely populated are: San Salvador, Ciudad Delgado, Mejicanos, Soyapango, Panchimalco and Apopa. The department covers an area of 886.2 square kilometres (342.2 sq mi) and the last census count in 2017 reported 2,404,097 people. It was classified as a department on June 12, 1824. During the time of the colony, the department was the San Salvador Party, from where territory was taken to make the departments of Chalatenago, La Libertad, Cuscatlán and La Paz. This department produces beans, coffee, sugar cane, etc. for agriculture, on the other hand San Salvador Department holds many headquarters for banking companies in El Salvador and Central America, and for many communication services, also the headquarters of the electric companies are located in the San Salvador Department, last years these companies took a step and started exporting electricity to all Central America. The current mayor of the department is Ernesto Muyshondt (2015–2019) Largest city: San Salvador Smallest city: Rosario de Mora

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