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4 unusual facts about Salvador


Chica Xavier

Francisca Xavier Queiroz de Jesus known professionally as Chica Xavier (born January 22, 1936 in Salvador) is a Brazilian actress.

Demetrin Veal

Demetrin Leandro Veal (born August 11, 1981 in Salvador, Bahia) is an American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent.

Santo Amaro, Bahia

Santo Amaro da Purificação, located about 73 kilometers from the city of Salvador, was formerly established as a sugar production center and now contains the historic remnants of its past, including its most famous church, the Igreja Matriz Santo Amaro da Purificação.

Thales de Azevedo State High School

Thales de Azevedo State High School (Portuguese: Colégio Estadual Thales de Azevedo) is a public high school located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.


Alejandro de la Cruz Bentos

Due to this, he received interest to play for various clubs outside of El Salvador, and in 2005, he was loaned to Puebla F.C. of Mexico.

Alejandro de la Cruz Bentos (born May 3, 1978 in Corrientes, Argentina) is an Argentinan Footballer who currently plays for C.D. FAS in El Salvador.

Antonio Saca

Born in Usulután, Saca is patrilineal descended from Palestinian (Catholic Christian) immigrants who arrived in El Salvador in the early 20th century from the West Bank town of Bethlehem.

Art zuid

Artists from 21 countries participated with fifty-eight sculptures from various artists like Anthony Caro, Jean Tinguely, Anthony Gormley, Marcel Pinas, Salvador Dalí, Ryas Komu, Lu Shengzhong, Eko Prawoto, Thomas Houseago, Jaume Plensa, Atelier van Lieshout, Subodh Gupta, Yayoi Kusama, Jean Dubuffet, Rodin, Dennis Oppenheim, Ugo Rondinone, Joost Conijn etc.

C.D. Universidad de El Salvador

Universidad represents the University of El Salvador (UES), the largest and oldest university in El Salvador.

Chalatenango Department

Around 1790, Francisco Luis Héctor de Carondelet, Governor of El Salvador, found that the local indigenous population working in Chaletenango's indigo industry had declined greatly.

Children of Mary Immaculate College

In the school year 2000–2001, Salvador replaced by Judith Aldaba from the De La Salle University and Dr. Victoria Honrada, from De La Salle Zobel School, became CMIC ‘s school head.

Culture of El Salvador

El Salvador's well known folk dance is known as Xuc which originated in Cojutepeque, Cuscatlan.

Dom Salvador

Dom Salvador, born 1938 Salvador da Silva Filho, is a Brazilian jazz / Música Popular Brasileira pianist most notable for his Rio 65 Trio that featured the Brazilian jazz drummer Edison Machado and bassist Sérgio Barroso.

Doricha

Slender Sheartail Doricha enicura (Vieillot, 1818), Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras.

El Salvador International Airport

On January 16, 2014, El Salvador President Mauricio Funes announces in San Salvador 's Presidential House the renaming of El Salvador International Airport to Mons.

Elena Tedesco

Elena Tedeso was crowned Nuestra Belleza Mundo El Salvador 2009 on August 28, 2009 at Telecorporación Salvadoreña studios in San Salvador with the partciparon of 14 delegates.

Francisco Osorto

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

Gutierre Vermúdez

By a charter dated 30 October 1130, his last known public act, Gutierre made a donation of the monastery of San Salvador de Villafrío to the Cathedral of Saint Mary in Lugo, then under construction under the master builder Raimundo de Monforte.

History of rail transport in El Salvador

However, limited services were resumed in 2007, between San Salvador, Ciudad Delgado and Apopa.

Hugh Barclay

Hugh Douglas Barclay (born 1932), New York State Senator and former United States Ambassador to El Salvador

Iberian Union

The Seventeen Provinces captured a large portion of the Brazilian coast including Bahia (and its capital Salvador), Pernambuco (and its capital Recife), Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, and Sergipe, while Dutch privateers sacked Portuguese ships in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Jesús Salvador Pérez

Jesús Salvador Pérez Llerena (born December 25, 1971 in Córdoba, Bolívar) is a retired male boxer from Colombia, who competed in the bantamweight division (– 54 kg) during his career.

Jon Sobrino

His own bishop, Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle, archbishop of San Salvador and primate of El Salvador, has said he may not teach theology or lecture in his archdiocese, which includes UCA, and removed the nihil obstat from his writings.

Juan Carlos Vellido

Among his most recent film appearances were as the protagonist of (No somos nadie) and has worked with directors like Guillermo del Toro (El espinazo del diablo), María Ripoll (Utopía) and Manuel Huerga (Salvador).

Juventud Independiente

Club Deportivo Juventud Independiente , also commonly known as Juventud Independiente, is a professional Salvadoran football club, based in San Juan Opico, La Libertad , El Salvador.

La Estancia, El Salvador

La Estancia is a small Caserio (town) part of the Texistepeque municipality in the Santa Ana department located 85.7 Kilometers (53.25 miles) from El Salvador's capital San Salvador.

La Puebla de Arganzón

The fictional liberal crusader Salvador Monsalud, hero of the ten books of the second series of Benito Pérez Galdós's Episodios Nacionales (written 1875–1879) was a native of La Puebla de Arganzón.

Lempa

Lempa River, Central American waterway flowing 422 km from its sources between Sierra Madre and Sierra del Merendón in southern Guatemala (30.4 km), where it is known as Río Olopa, through Honduras (31.4 km) and El Salvador (360 km) to Pacific Ocean; forms small part of Honduras-El Salvador boundary, where it is called Río Lempa

San Francisco Lempa, municipality in El Salvador, located in country's northwest department of Chalatenango; its elevation is 204 m (669 ft); nearby Las Matras Archaeological Ruins contain relics of prehistoric populations and caves in which rock writing is found; El Salvador's highest point, El Pital (elevation 2730.06 m) is also in vicinity

Madeinusa

The drama centers around the encounter of the eponymous Madeinusa (Magaly Solier), a teenaged girl selected as the festival's Mater Dolorosa and daughter of the village mayor, with Salvador.

Matej Andraž Vogrinčič

1994 Paints garments and makes fashion accessories for Hej Salvador, a music-fashion performance (directed by Matjaž Pograjc, produced by Glej theatre), Ljubljana, Slovenia

Nursing Students Without Borders

The founding chapter of Nursing Students Without Borders has undertaken a larger initiative to provide support for the construction of a Red Cross medical clinic in San Sebastián, San Vicente, El Salvador.

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.

Rafael dos Santos

Rafael dos Santos (Makanaki) (born October 8, 1983 in Salvador, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer currently playing for 3 de Febrero of the Primera Division in Paraguay.

Raquel Saavedra Salvador

Raquel Saavedra Salvador (born May 11, 1981 in Barcelona) is a vision impaired S11/B1 swimmer from Spain.

Ratas, Ratones, Rateros

The plot follows the life of Salvador (Bustos), a young petty thief from Quito, after he is visited by his cousin Ángel (Valencia), an ex-convict with a bounty on his head.

Sal Salvador

In addition to recordings with Stan Kenton and with his own groups, Salvador can be heard in the film Blackboard Jungle during a scene in a bar where a recording on which he is featured is played on the jukebox.

Salvador de Iturbide y Huarte

Prince Salvador of Mexico, also named Salvador de Iturbide y Huarte (1820 - June 7, 1856) was the eighth child (and third son) of Agustín I of Mexico and Empress Ana Maria Huarte.

Salvador de Mendonça

Salvador de Menezes Drummond Furtado de Mendonça (Itaboraí, July 21, 1841 – Rio de Janeiro, December 5, 1913), known as Salvador de Mendonça, was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist, diplomat and writer.

Salvador Giner

Salvador Giner got his PhD in the University of Chicago and has postgraduate courses in the University of Cologne.

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.

Salvador Medina

Salvador Medina Cárcamo (born January 27, 1988 in Distrito Federal) is a Mexican professional football defender who currently plays for Pumas Morelos in the Liga de Ascenso.

Salvador Plascencia

Salvador Plascencia is an American writer, born 1976 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

San Salvador Island

In the 17th century, San Salvador was settled by an English colonist, John Watling (alternately referred to as George Watling), who gave the island its alternative historical name.

Sumo people

The evidence provided by an analysis of the Misumalpan language family, to which the Mayangna languages belong and which also includes Miskitu and the extinct Matagalpan and Cacaopera tongues once spoken in the Nicaraguan highlands and southern El Salvador, indicates the continuous presence of these groups in the region from around 2000BC.

Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Sunset Park's second age began with a wave of immigration from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador, as well as other Latin American countries.

Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe

Dr. Julio E. Rubio replaced Salvador Garza as the head of the campus.

Thecla

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

Trives

Sobrado, A Pobra de Trives (San Salvador), a parish in A Pobra de Trives municipality in Ourense in the Galicia region of north-west Spain

Universidad del Valle de México

As a response to the developmental needs of the country, and to the demand for well-prepared professionals, a group of academics and entrepreneurs formed by José Ortega Romero, Ignacio Guerra Pellegaud, Alejandro Pearson, Salvador Camillieri, Jorge Malo and Manuel Olivar, founded the Universidad del Valle de México, as a private alternative for the formation of professionals that Mexico needed.

Vaccaro brothers

Their sister, Maria Vaccaro married Salvador D'Antoni and the Vaccaro brothers and D'Antoni pooled their resources and began importing bananas and fresh produce from La Ceiba, Honduras in 1899.

Violeta Menjívar

Born Elvia Violeta Menjívar in Arcatao, Chalatenango, she studied medicine at the University of 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.


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