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35 unusual facts about El Salvador


Alejandro de la Cruz Bentos

During his time with the Santa Ana club, he would go on to play an integral part in the club winning the league title 5 times from 2002 to 2005.

Álvaro Misael Alfaro

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

Ana Maria de Martinez

Ana Maria de Martinez (born May 28, 1937 in Santa Ana, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran artist.

ASAPROSAR

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

C.D. Sonsonate

Founded in 1948, the club was known as C.D. Sonsonate, also playing in the town of Sonsonate, They are the most used named by the club.

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.

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.

Efrain Burgos

Efraín Antonio Burgos (born 4 November 1961 in Santa Ana, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran football (soccer) player.

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.

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.

Esteban Blanco

Born in the district of San Miguel, he went on the play for the two biggest club from that city C.D. Águila and C.D. Dragón.

Fuerte Aguilares

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

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.

Jonathan Josué Águila Joya (born November 11, 1990 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer.

José Félix Quirós

José Félix Quirós (1811, San Miguel, El Salvador - 1883, San Miguel) was President of El Salvador 3 - 7 February 1848 and 1 March - 3 May 1851.

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 José Gómez

Juan José Gómez (born November 8, 1980 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who plays actually for Luis Angel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier League.

Kevin Santamaria

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

Leonel Cubas

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

Mario Castillo

Mario Alfonso Castillo Díaz (born 30 October 1957 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a retired football player.

Nuestra Belleza El Salvador 2012

Nuestra Belleza El Salvador 2012 took place on April 27, 2012 at the Hotel Royal Decameron in Salinitas, Sonsonate.

Oscar Emigdio Benítez

Oscar Emigdio Benítez (born October 6, 1948 in San Vicente, El Salvador) is a former Salvadoran (El Salvador) football player and manager.

Raúl Antonio Coreas

Raúl Antonio Coreas Pérez (born February 7, 1989 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Dragón in the Salvadoran Second Division.

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.

Ronald Pimentel

Ronald Alexander Pimentel (born September 17, 1985 in Sonsonate) is a professional football player, who currently plays for Once Municipal in the Salvadoran Premier League .

Rúsvel Saravia

At the time Saravia was playing in the Salvadoran third division with C.D. Los Andes, and was asked to trial with the San Miguel club, where he impressed Stempel and was offered a contract.

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.

Thecla

Santa Tecla, formerly Nuevo San Salvador, in La Libertad, El Salvador

Víctor Velásquez

Víctor Manuel Velásquez Molina (born April 12, 1976 in La Unión) is a retired Salvadoran football player.

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.

William Maldonado

William Antonio Maldonado López (born January 3, 1990 in Santa Ana, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Santa Tecla F.C..


1980 Dominican Embassy siege in Bogotá

The hostages included the Papal nuncio to Colombia, Angelo Acerbi, as well as the ambassadors from fourteen countries: Austria, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Israel, Mexico, Switzerland, the United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

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.

Athletics at the 1994 Central American Games

Athletics competitions at the 1994 Central American Games were held at the Estadio Flor Blanca in San Salvador, El Salvador, in November – December 1, 1994.

Benjamín Durán

Benjamín Hernán Durán Figueroa (born July 17, 1988 in Chalchuapa, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football forward who currently plays for Once Municipal in the Salvadoran Premier division.

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

Dennis Salinas

Dennis Fernando Salinas Bermúdez (born 23 July 1986 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

Edgar Henríquez

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

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.

Erber Burgos

Erber Alfredo Burgos Ángel (born 8 April 1969 in Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran football player.

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.

Fidel Mondragón

Fidel Eduardo Mondragón Palomo (born February 24, 1981 in Jiquilisco) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Isidro Metapán in the Salvadoran Premier League.

Francisco Osorto

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

Gabriel Perrone

He did not have great success as a player his career was ended by a Cruciate ligament injury after playing in the lower leagues with Atlanta and CD FAS of 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.

Guillermo Rivera

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

Henry Martínez

Henry ("Donald") Martínez (born January 20, 1971, in San Salvador) is a retired bantamweight boxer from El Salvador, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Herbert Sosa

Herbert Arnoldo Sosa Burgos (born January 11, 1990 in San Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Alianza in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

Holy Spirit Grotto

The Holy Spirit Grotto (La Gruta del Espíritu Santo in Spanish), in Corinto, Morazán, El Salvador, is a registered national monument of petroglyphs.

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).

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 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.

Juan Guzmán Tapia

Guzmán was born into a Chilean diplomatic family in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Juan Ramón Martínez

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

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.

Lifestyle Center La Gran Via

La Gran Vía, is a shopping mall tipe Life style center located in Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador.

Luis Miguel Hernández

Luis Miguel Hernández Campos (born February 9, 1985 in Chinameca, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran First Division.

Mario Mayén Meza

Mario Ernesto Mayén Meza (born on 19 May 1968 in La Libertad, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran professional footballer.

Milton Meléndez

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

Nicolás Muñoz

Nicolás Armando Muñoz Jarvis (born 21 December 1981 in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian footballer who currently plays for Isidro Metapan in the First Division of El Salvador.

Óscar Ulloa

Óscar Alejandro Ulloa Alonzo (born August 19, 1986 in Metapán, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football forward who currently plays for FAS in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

Ramiro Carballo

Ramiro Ernesto Carballo Henríquez (born 16 March 1978 in Colón, La Libertad, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran professional football player, who currently plays for UES in the Salvadoran Premier League.

Rubén Quijada

Rubén Adolfo Quijada Umanzor (born December 18, 1985 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football player.

San José Las Flores, Chalatenango

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

Saúl Molina

Saúl Victorino Molina (born 14 March 1938 in Nueva Guadalupe, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran professional footballer.

Terencio Sierra

After studying in Comayagua he became a typographist in El Salvador before travelling through Central and South America as an accountant in the shipping industry.

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.

William Torres

William Jeovanny Torres Alegría (born October 27, 1976 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran professional football player, who currently plays for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier Division.