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25 unusual facts about San Miguel, El Salvador


Armando Contreras Palma

Armando Contreras Palma (born April 14, 1947 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football manager.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

José Manuel González Hernández

José Manuel González Hernández (Born October 6, 1981 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Dragón in the Salvadoran Premier League.

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.

Juan Francisco Barraza

Born in the district of San Miguel as the son of Maria de la Cruz Barraza and Juan de God Flores, he attended Dr Antonio Rosales primary school.

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.

Juan Ramón Martínez

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

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.

Pescozada

They are currently feuding with a reggaeton group called Heavy Clan from San Miguel and released a diss (disrespect recording) called "Relaciones Diplomaticas" featuring Santos.

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.

Raúl Antonio García

Raúl Antonio García Herrera (born September 13, 1962 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran professional footballer.

Roberto Guadalupe Martínez

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

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 Coreas

Salvador Arturo Coreas Pérez (born September 29, 1984 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for second division side Municipal Limeño.

Walter Soto

Walter Fabricio Soto Pineda (born December 22, 1983 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who is currently contracted to Águila in the Salvadoran Premier League.

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 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.


A.D. Municipal

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

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.

Aumi Guerra

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

Cesar Nerio

César Nerio Toledo (born December 23, 1982 in San Juan Opico, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Chalatenango in the Salvadoran second division

Claudio Reyna

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

Cline Paden

The institute offers college-style instruction in Lubbock and a series of satellite schools in forty-six states and in such countries as Austria, Bahamas, Belarus, Bermuda, Canada, Cuba, El Salvador, England, Germany, Ghana, Guyana, Indonesia, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, and Trinidad.

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

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).

Francisco de Carvajal

In the campaign of 1546 Carvajal violently put down the royalist forces in the south of the colony, marching and countermarching from Quito to San Miguel, from Lima to Guamanga and back to Lima, from Lucanas to Cuzco, from Collao to Arequipa and from Arequipa to Charcas.

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.

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.

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.

Joel Aguilar

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

José Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez

José Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez (30 October 1873 – 9 August 1938) was the sixth Bishop and second Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.

José Belarmino Jaime

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

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.

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.

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.

Maureen Kaila Vergara

Maureen Kaila Vergara (born December 17, 1964 in San Francisco, United States) is a retired Salvadoran cycle racer who used to ride for the 800.com team.

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.

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.

Once Lobos

Once Lobos Chalchuapa, commonly known as Once Lobos, is a professional Salvadoran football club based in Chalchuapa, Santa Ana, El Salvador.

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.

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.

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.

Rafael Arévalo

Arévalo was the first player from El Salvador to represent the country, in a tennis competition, at the Olympics.

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.

Ramón Martínez de Paz

Ramón Martínez de Paz (born February 10, 1981 in Usulután, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Municipal Limeño in the Salvadoran second division .

Ramón Verea

Ramón Silvestre Verea Aguiar y García (Curantes, 1833 – Buenos Aires, 1899) was a Spanish journalist, engineer and writer, known as the inventor of a calculator with an internal multiplication table.

Roberto D'Aubuisson

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

San Miguel, El Salvador

Many Salvadoran historical figures were born in San Miguel: Captain General Gerado Barrios, writer Francisco Gavidia, and poet Juan J. Cañas.

Santiago Metro Line 6

The new line will directly benefit the communes of Cerrillos, Estación Central, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Santiago, San Miguel, San Joaquín, Ñuñoa, Providencia and Las Condes.

Saúl Molina

He took part in their promotion to the Salvadoran Premier Division and formed a dangerous frontline partnership with players like Juan Francisco Barraza and Juan Antonio Merlos.

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.

Sumilao, Bukidnon

On March 2008, San Miguel and the Sumilao farmers signed a deal giving 50 hectares to the farmers.

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.

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.