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35 unusual facts about El Salvador


Adolfo Menéndez

Adolfo Humberto Menéndez Cortéz (born 13 April 1970 in Santa Ana, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran footballer who currently acts as goalkeeper coach at C.D. FAS.

Álvaro Misael Alfaro

Álvaro Misael Alfaro Sánchez (born January 6, 1971 in Nueva San Salvador, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran footballer.

Andrés Ignacio Menéndez

Brigadier General Andrés Ignacio Menéndez (1 February 1879–7 June 1962) was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador.

ASAPROSAR

Headquartered in Santa Ana, El Salvador, ASAPROSAR has over 200 local employees in the education, health and social work fields.

Carlos Monteagudo

Carlos Romeo Monteagudo Alfaro (born April 29, 1985 in San Vicente, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

Cristian Edgardo Álvarez

Cristian Edgardo Álvarez Cruz (born 19 April 1978 in Santa Ana) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for FAS in the Salvadoran Premier League.

Domingo Álvarez

René Domingo Álvarez Hernández (born October 20, 1977 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for ADI F.C. in the Salvadoran second division.

Edwin Sánchez

Edwin Ernesto Sánchez Vigil (born February 21, 1990 in Santa Tecla, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for FAS in the Primera División of El Salvador, and for the El Salvador national team.

El Salvador, Chile

Anaconda Copper Mining Company was concerned about declining reserves in its Potrerillos mine and it sent prospectors in search of a new Chilean ore body in 1951.

El Salvador, Misamis Oriental

These are Asia Brewery, Tanduay Rhum, Virgin Cola Bottling Plant (Visayas and Mindanao region distributor), Highland Fresh Daily Products, Monark Equipment, The Aoso, Zest-O Corporation, WL Foods Corporation, Universal Robina Corporation and Union Plywood Corporation.

Emerson Umaña

Emerson David Umaña Corleto (born November 12, 1981 in San Vicente, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football midfielder who currently plays for Águila in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

Ernesto Ochoa

José Ernesto Ochoa Fuentes (born June 21, 1986 in La Unión, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran professional footballer who most recently played for Aspirante in the Salvadoran second division.

Foreign relations of Costa Rica

Costa Rica also hosted several rounds of negotiations between the Salvadoran Government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), aiding El Salvador's efforts to emerge from civil war and culminating in that country's 1994 free and fair elections.

Fuerte Aguilares

Club Deportivo Fuerte Aguilares, commonly known as Fuerte Aguilares are a Salvadoran professional football club based in Aguilares.

Guillermo Josué Pino

Guillermo Josué Pino Martínez (born June 20, 1988 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football player, who most recently played as a goalkeeper for Luis Ángel Firpo .

Joaquín Escolán y Balibrera

On the following October 5, the Legislative Assembly, in agreement with Escolán, designed the city of San Vicente as the residence of the state authorities.

Jonathan Águila

Born in San Miguel, Águila started in the Fundomadrid project and then joined Águila San Isidro and later ADI.

José María Silva

Licenciado José María Silva (ca. 1804 in San Miguel, El Salvador – October 16, 1876 in San Miguel) was a Liberal Salvadoran politician.

Josué Flores

Josué Odir Flores Palencia (born May 13, 1988 in Santa Ana, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer currently playing for Zakho in the Iraqi Premier League.

Juan Ramón Martínez

Juan Ramón "Mon" Martínez (born April 20, 1948 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a retired football player from El Salvador.

Kevin Santamaria

Kevin Oswaldo Santamaría Guzmán (born January 11, 1991 in Santa Tecla, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football midfielder.

Marcelo Tejeda

Marcelo Javier Tejeda Brugnoli (born August 5, 1986 in Santa Ana, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer of Uruguayan descent.

Marvin Umanzor

Marvin Alexander Umanzor (born May 10, 1989 in San Miguel) is a Salvadoran footballer.

Moisés Girón

Moisés Fernando Girón (Born July 17, 1987 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who most recently played for C.D. Vista Hermosa.

Óscar Fuentes

Óscar Rene Fuentes (born on June 20, 1984 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Municipal Limeño.

Pedro Barriere

However, the priest Dr. José Matías Delgado, who had been named the new civil political chief of El Salvador by the Provisional Consultative Junta of Guatemala, secured their release in Santa Ana, El Salvador, before they reached Guatemala.

Ricardo Valencia

Nicknamed el Chilenito (the little Chilean), Santa Ana-born and raised Ricardo Valencia joined the newly formed team FAS in 1949.

Roberto D'Aubuisson

D'Aubuisson was born in Santa Tecla, La Libertad Department, El Salvador, graduating from the national military academy in 1963.

Roberto Guadalupe Martínez

Roberto Guadalupe Martínez (born 21 February 1973 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran footballer.

Rodrigo Ávila

Ávila himself was not substantially involved in partisan politics until he was asked by the ARENA leadership to run as mayor of Santa Tecla, a small suburb of San Salvador.

Salvador Mariona

Salvador Antonio Mariona Rivera (born 27 December 1943 in Santa Tecla, El Salvador) is a retired soccer player from El Salvador who represented his country at the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

Santos Castro

Santos Andres Castro Guerrero (born December 2, 1982 in San Vicente, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football player.

Shawn Martin

At the age of 2, he moved to Nicaragua due to conflicts in the country at the time and since his aunt Carol Henriquez had lived in Santa Tecla, his aunt helped them out to start a new life.

Universidad Autónoma de Santa Ana

The Universidad Autónoma de Santa Ana is a university in Santa Ana, El Salvador.

Water supply and sanitation in El Salvador

The dominant service provider is the Administración Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (ANDA), which provides services to 40 percent of the total population of El Salvador in 149 out of the country’s 262 municipalities, including the metropolitan area of San Salvador and the country's other two main cities, Santa Ana and San Miguel.


1996 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics

The 12th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships was held in San Salvador, El Salvador, between 14–16 July, 1996.

A.D. Municipal

Asociacion Deportivo Municipal Juayúa, also known simply as A.D. Municipal, is a professional football club based in Juayúa, El Salvador.

Alexander Escobar

Alexander Escobar Rosales (born April 4, 1984 in Metapán, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for A.D. Isidro Metapán in the Salvadoran Premier League.

Aumi Guerra

Champion at the 2008 PABCON Ranking Championships, held in San Salvador, El Salvador.

C.D. Atlético Chaparratique

Club Deportivo Atletico Chaparrastique , commonly known as Atletico Chaparrastique are a Salvadoran professional football club based in Moncagua, San Miguel, El Salvador.

C.D. Pasaquina

Club Deportivo Pasaquina Futbol Club, commonly known as Pasaquina F.C. are a Salvadoran professional football club based in Pasaquina, La Unión Department.

Carlos Ayala

Carlos Ernesto Ayala Amaya (born December 23, 1982 in Soyapango, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier League.

Carlos Luis Campos

Carlos Luis Campos (born 1980-09-27 in Guco) is a light flyweight boxer from Venezuela, who won the bronze medal in the men's light flyweight division (– 48 kg) at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games in El Salvador.

Danielle Egan

Egan married Claudio Reyna, then a member of the United States national soccer team, in July 1997, one week after he attended the FIFA All-Star Game in Hong Kong and two weeks after the male U.S. team's World Cup qualifier at El Salvador.

Denis Walker

L to R: Denis Walker, Lord Sudeley, El Salvador's Foreign Minister, Andrew Smith (yellow tie), Dr Harvey Ward

Edgar Henríquez

Edgar Alonso Henríquez (born 16 March 1964 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran retired football midfielder.

Ernesto Góchez

Ernesto Góchez Lovo (born September 14, 1976 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently is an assistant coach for C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo.

Ever Hernández

Ever Francisco Hernández (born December 11, 1958 in Santiago de María) is a retired football player from El Salvador who represented his country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.

Fermán Cienfuegos

José Eduardo Sancho Castañeda, better known by hius nom de guerre Fermán Cienfuegos (born 6 March 1947) was the leader of the Salvadoran organization Fuerzas Armadas de la Resistencia Nacional (National Resistance Armed Forces in English, part of Resistencia Nacional or RN).

Fernando Sáenz Lacalle

Fernando Sáenz Lacalle (born 16 November 1932) was the tenth Bishop and sixth Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.

Francisco Osorto

Francisco Salvador Osorto Guardado (born 20 March 1957 in Santa Rosa de Lima) is a former football player from El Salvador.

Gilberto Murgas

Gilberto Alfredo Murgas Fajardo (born January 22, 1981 in El Refugio, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran football player who finished his career with FAS in the Salvadoran Premier League.

Giovanni Trigueros

Giovanni Trigueros Martínez (born 8 December 1966 in Ahuachapán, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran footballer who played as a central defender for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier League.

Guillermo Rivera

José Guillermo Rivera Escobar (born November 25, 1969 in San Rafael Cedros, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran football (soccer) player.

Hugh Douglas Barclay

He was sworn in as Ambassador on November 12, and presented his credentials to El Salvador’s President, Francisco Flores, on December 18.

International Law Enforcement Academy

Presently, there are five ILEAs located around the world: ILEA Budapest in Hungary, ILEA Bangkok in Thailand, ILEA Gaborone in Botswana, ILEA Roswell in New Mexico, USA, and ILEA San Salvador in El Salvador.

Jacinta Escudos

Jacinta Escudos, born in San Salvador, is a writer whose body of work includes novels, short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, and journalistic chronicles that have been published in such Central American daily outlets as La Nación (Costa Rica), La Prensa Gráfica (El Salvador), and El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua).

Joel Aguilar

Joel Antonio Aguilar Chicas (born July 2, 1975) is a Salvadoran football referee who currently resides in San Salvador.

José Belarmino Jaime

José Belarmino Jaime is the new President of El Salvador's Supreme Court.

José Campos

José Eduardo Campos Barahona (born March 15, 1983 in Usulután, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier League.

José Francisco Jovel

José Francisco Jovel Cruz (born 26 May 1951 in Usulután, El Salvador) is a retired football player from El Salvador who represented his country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.

José Matías Delgado University

José Matías Delgado University (Spanish: Universidad "Dr. José Matías Delgado" (UJMD)) is a private university in Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador, founded in 1977.

José Miguel Granadino

José Miguel Granadino León (born September 28, 1988) is a Salvadoran football Defender who played for FAS.

Lake Ilopango

Lake Ilopango is a crater lake which fills a scenic 8×11 km (72 km2 or 28 sq mi) volcanic caldera in central El Salvador, on the borders of the San Salvador, La Paz, and Cuscatlán departments.

Leonel Cubas

Leonel Catán Cubas (Born unknown - died 22 February 2007 in Santa Ana, El Salvador) was a football player from El Salvador.

Milton Meléndez

Milton Antonio Meléndez Cornejo (born 3 August 1967 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran football player.

NACAC Championships

The last of the six IAAF areas to hold a continental senior athletics competition, the NACAC Championships' inaugural edition was held in 2007 in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Nicholas Hervey

One such event, on 25 September 1989, was the Western Goals Institute dinner at Simpson's-in-the-Strand, chaired by Lord Sudeley, for El Salvador's President, Alfredo Cristiani, and his inner cabinet.

Óscar Navarro

Óscar Alberto Navarro Meléndez (born January 13, 1979 in La Libertad, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who is currently under contract with UES in the Salvadoran Premier League.

Pedro Geoffroy Rivas

Pedro Geoffroy Rivas (September 16, 1908 in Santa Ana, El Salvador – November 10, 1979 in San Salvador, El Salvador) was an anthropologist, poet, and linguist.

Permanent Peoples' Tribunal

The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal examined the cases of Tibet, Western Sahara, Argentina, Eritrea, Philippine, El Salvador, Afghanistan, East Timor, Zaïre, Guatemala, the Armenian Genocide or recently the Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka, the intervention of the United States in Nicaragua, Brazilian Amazon, etc.

San José Las Flores, Chalatenango

San José Las Flores is a municipality and city in Chalatenango Department, El Salvador.

Selvin Bonifacio Zepeda

Selvin Bonifacio Zepeda Morales (born 13 July 1981 in San Sebastián) is a Salvadoran football player who represented El Salvador at international level.

Spencer S. Wood

In November 1888 he was among a group of four officers ordered to Mexico and Central America to make astronomical observations to determine the longitude of Coatzacoalcos and Salina Cruz in Mexico, La Libertad in El Salvador, and San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua; the group then traveled to Washington, D.C., to complete its calculations.

Telecommunications in El Salvador

Telecommunications in El Salvador include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet, centered primarily around the capital, San Salvador.

University of Navarra School of Law

Approximately 70% of its Law Students come from the other regions of Spain and from a long list of countries, which includes:Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, México, France, Albania, Jamaica y Portugal, amongst others.

Vladan Vićević

Vićević, born in Titovo Užice, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, played with his hometown club FK Sloboda Užice in the Serbian lower leagues for a decade between 1986 and 1995 before moving to El Salvador to play with Águila from August 1996.

William Antonio Torres

William Antonio Torres Cabrera (born May 30, 1981 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran professional football player, who currently plays as a defender for Once Municipal in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

Yudelka Bonilla

Yudelka Bonilla (born September 19, 1976 in Mao) is a female volleyball and beach volleyball player from Dominican Republic, who won the bronze medal in the women's beach team competition at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, partnering Iris Santos.