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100 unusual facts about San Salvador


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.

1997 Pacific hurricane season

It weakened to a depression and made landfall near San Salvador on June 7 and dissipated shortly thereafter.

2002 Central American and Caribbean Games

The 19th Central American and Caribbean Games were held in San Salvador, El Salvador from November 19 to November 30, 2002 and included 37 nations and a total number of 7,000 competitors.

2002 Central American and Caribbean Games women's volleyball squads

This article show all participating team squads at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games, played by eight countries and held from November 28 to December 8, 2002, in San Salvador, El Salvador.

2007 Central American and Caribbean Age Group Championships in Athletics

The 12th Central American and Caribbean Age Group Championships in Athletics were hosted in San Salvador, El Salvador, on July 7–8, 2011, one week before the inaugural North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) Senior Championships took place at the same site.

2010 Pacific hurricane season

:*5:00 a.m. PDT (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression One-E develops out of a broad area of low pressure roughly 295 mi (475 km) west of San Salvador, El Salvador.

Adrian Bellani

Bellani currently resides in Los Angeles yet remains extremely close with his family and visits them often in San Salvador.

Alexis Maravilla

Alexis Vladimir Maravilla Araujo (born December 29, 1989 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who most recently played for C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo.

Alexis Panisse

She won gold medals over 1500 and 5000 metres at the 2012 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics in San Salvador.

Alfredo Betancourt

After his primary education in his home town, when he was 14 years old Alfredo won a scholarship to study at the prestigious teacher training college, La Escuela Normal, San Salvador.

Ana Vilma de Escobar

De Escobar will hold deputy in charge of San Salvador in the period 2012–2015 in the Salvadoran parliament.

Ariane de Rothschild

Ariane de Rothschild, (born Ariane Langner in 1965 in San Salvador), is vice-president of Edmond de Rothschild Holding SA since 1999.

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.

Augusto Coello

Augusto Constantino Coello Estévez (1 September 1884, Tegucigalpa–8 September 1941, San Salvador) was a Honduran writer.

Aumi Guerra

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

Aveos Fleet Performance

Located in San Salvador, its facilities are accessed by carriers from the US, Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America.

Baseball at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games

The 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games were held in San Salvador, El Salvador from 27 November through 7 December 2002.

Carlo Emanuele Ruspoli, 3rd Duke of Morignano

Firstborn son of Galeazzo Maria Alvise Emanuele Ruspoli, 2nd Duke of Morignano and first wife Doña María Elisa Soler y Borghi (San Salvador, June 25, 1926 –), of the Marqueses de Rabell.

Carlos Antonio Meléndez

Carlos Antonio Meléndez Flores (born 12 November 1958 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran football (soccer) player.

Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery

In San Salvador he was given the nickname by which he became known throughout South America, El Rubio Bravo ("the Brave Blonde").

Cristian Esnal

Cristian Eduardo Esnal Fernández (born May 2, 1986 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer of Uruguayan descent, Who currently playing for Club Atlético River Plate (Uruguay).

Delwayne Delaney

His personal best times are 10.31 seconds in the 100 metres and 20.83 seconds in the 200 metres, both achieved in July 2007 in San Salvador.

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.

E. G. Squier

He was appointed special chargé d'affaires to all the Central American states in 1849, and negotiated treaties with Nicaragua, Honduras, and San Salvador.

Edgar Henríquez

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

Edward Cocherari

Eduardo Andre Cocherari Cohen (Born January 23, 1980 in San Salvador) is a Guatemala professional soccer player who most recently played for Deportivo Petapa.

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.

Fany Chalas

She won gold medals over 100 and 200 metres at the 2012 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics in San Salvador.

Fernando Llort

Fernando Llort Choussy (born April 17, 1949 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is an internationally recognized Salvadoran artist, called "El Salvador's National Artist" by the Foundation for Self Sufficiency in Central America (now called EcoViva).

Fernando Sáenz Lacalle

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

Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children

FIMRC operates a clinic in Las Delicias (near San Salvador) that seeks to treat gastroenteritis, influenza, malaria, measles, pneumonia, and bronchitis, each of which is caused or complicated by the malnutrition, poor sanitation, and poor housing conditions that the children of Las Delicias experience.

Franck Cammas

North Atlantic crossing (east to west) also called the "discovery route" (Cadiz - San Salvador): 7 days 10 hours 58 minutes and 53 secondes (1 May 2007)

Frits Schuitema

In 1978, Schuitema was taken hostage in San Salvador, along with two British bankers and a Japanese businessman, by a leftist guerilla group known as the Armed Force of National Resistance (FARN).

German Cáceres

German Cáceres (born San Salvador, July 9, 1954) is a Salvadoran composer of contemporary classical music and a musical conductor.

Groupama 3

Route of the discovery (Cadix-San Salvador), 3884 miles, in 7 days 10 hours 58 minutes 53 seconds, the 4th of June 2007, with an average speed of 21.7 knots.

Héctor Canjura

Héctor Aarón Canjura Astorga (born 15 July 1976 in San Salvador) is a retired football player from El Salvador.

Heissell Carcache

She also played the Guatemala and San Salvador legs from the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2008 along with Heidy Traña.

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.

History of rail transport in El Salvador

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

HIV/AIDS in El Salvador

Important government activities include signing the Declaration of San Salvador for fighting AIDS in Central America and the Caribbean and the creation of an HIV/AIDS/sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention program for mobile populations.

Iglesia El Carmen

In 1855, one year after the city of Nueva San Salvador was founded, Colonel León Castillo started constructing a church dedicated to the Lady of El Carmen.

When a new capital was established in Nueva San Salvador after this earthquake, León Castillo decided to erect the church of his dreams in the new city.

These were represented with the most valuable sculptures in the church, which were an inheritance from the colonial period and had been kept in San Salvador in Iglesia San Francisco which was demolished during the earthquake of 1873.

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).

Jean Pérez

Jean Piero Pérez (born March 7, 1981) is a male boxer from Venezuela, who won the gold medal as an amateur at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador.

Joel Aguilar

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

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.

Returning to El Salvador, he taught at the Jesuit-run University of Central America (UCA) in San Salvador, which he helped to found.

Jorge Abrego

Jorge Alberto Ábrego Martínez (born 16 October 1964 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran football player.

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 María Rivas

José María Rivas Martínez (born May 12, 1958 in San Salvador) is a former football player from El Salvador.

Josimar Hernández

Josimar Alexis Hernández Abrego (born December 23, 1989 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who most recently played as a midfielder for C.D. Luis Ángel Firpo.

Juan Díaz Rodríguez

Juan Alberto Díaz Rodríguez (born November 8, 1985 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer.

Juan Guzmán Tapia

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

Julio Palacios Lozano

Julio Amílcar Palacios Lozano (born 18 January 1962 in San Salvador, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran footballer.

Karen Elizabeth Landaverde

Karen Elizabeth Landaverde Alfaro (born 16 December 1991 in San Salvador) is a Salvadoran football player currently playing for San Salvador of the Division 1 Féminine.

Kepler Orellana

Orellana represented Venezuela at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, winning the silver medal in the men's singles event while taking the bronze medal in both the men's doubles and men's team events.

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.

Limnoperdon

An isotype (duplicate of the holotype specimen) is located in the Herbarium of the University of El Salvador in San Salvador.

Luisa Maida

Luisa Cristina del Rosario Maida Leiva (born October 7, 1979 in San Salvador) is a Salvadoran sport shooter.

Mágico González

Jorge Alberto González Barillas (born 13 March 1958 in San Salvador), popularly known as El Mágico (the magic), is a Salvadoran retired footballer.

Manuel Salazar

Manuel Alejandro Salazar Rivas (born January 23, 1986 in San Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran footballer.

Mesoamerican nephropathy

In April 2013, a high level meeting with regional health ministries, nongovernmental organizations, aid agencies, clinical specialists and researchers was held in San Salvador city, El Salvador, leading the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to declare CKDu a pressing and extremely serious health problem in the region.

Miguel Ángel Soriano

Miguel Ángel Soriano Olmedo (born 29 September 1973 in San Salvador) is a Salvadoran football coach and former player.

Milton Meléndez

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

MS-13

Some sources state the gang is named for La Mara, a street gang in San Salvador, and the Salvatrucha guerrillas who fought in the Salvadoran Civil War.

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.

Narrow gauge railways in North America

FENADESAL currently uses the tracks to connect the capital city of San Salvador to its suburbs.

Nichola Simpson

She won Bronze at the 2nd World Cup leg in San Salvador in 2006, which was Great Britain's first Archery World Cup medal.

Pasaje Del Terror

Pasaje Del Terror is an interactive walk-through horror attraction with branches in thirty different cities in Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, Malaga, Salou, Santander, etc. as well as some of the major cities of the world, such as Rome, Lisbon, Blackpool, Buenos Aires, Bariloche, Cancun, San Salvador and Tokyo.

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.

Priestly Society of the Holy Cross

Fernando Saenz Lacalle, Archbishop of San Salvador, former Apostolic Administrator of the Military of San Salvador

Quelepa

 Wyllys Andrews and is now in the Museo Nacional de Antropología Dr. David J. Guzmán in San Salvador.

Ricardo Merlos

José Ricardo Merlos Orellana (born September 25, 1983 in San Salvador) is a male athlete from El Salvador, who competes in archery.

Ricardo Poma

Ricardo Poma (born 1946) is the Chief Executive Officer of the family owned conglomerate Grupo Poma, based in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Roman Catholicism in El Salvador

Fernando Sáenz Lacalle, originally of Opus Dei, is the current Archbishop of San Salvador.

The most well-known figure in the El Salvadoran church's history is Archbishop of San Salvador Óscar Romero.

A prominent seminary is San José de la Montaña in San Salvador where both Romero and liberation theologian Rutilio Grande studied.

San Salvador was made an archdiocese on February 11, 1913 with Monsignor Antonio Adolfo Perez as first Archbishop.

Roy Bourgeois

Bourgeois's criticism of US foreign policy in Latin America intensified on November 16, 1989 when six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and the housekeeper's daughter were massacred on the campus of Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" (UCA) in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Rubén Quijada

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

Salarrué

He died in Los Planes de Renderos, near San Salvador, and is buried in the Cementerio de los Ilustres ("Cemetery of Distinguished Citizens").

San Martín National Institute

Official support helped the institute open its first overseas affiliate, in San Salvador in 1957, and this was followed by ones in Santiago (1960), Montevideo (1962), Cuzco and Madrid (1964), Rome, Brussels and Paris (1969), Los Angeles and New York (1972), as well as numeorus others (including one in Boulogne-Sur-Mer, where he died in 1850).

San Salvador, San Salvador

It has a "Zona Rosa" where the wealthy get together for the weekends, new hotels such as "El Princess" and "El Camino Real" offer top notch stay, where you can take advantage of visiting the all-time commercial centers Metrocentro, MetroSur and enjoy the best of all restaurants: "Pollo Campero".

San Salvador has some of the best schools, such as Liceo Salvadoreno, Externado San José, Liceo Cristiano Central, Santa Cecilia and much more.

Señorío of Cuzcatlán

With time, they were all annexed by the chieftainship of Cuzcatlán, today the modern city of Antiguo Cuscatlan a city and municipality, part of the San Salvador Metropolitan Area (AMSS).

On the ashes of the once mighty Cuzcatlan in 1525, Pedro de Alvarado's cousin Diego de Alvarado established the Villa De San Salvador.

Seth Doane

Channel One News, the high school TV network, then made him a news anchor, sending him abroad to cover stories in San Salvador, Indonesia, Afghanistan, and the Sudan.

Shrine of the Sacred Heart

The parish houses large devotions to Our Lady of Guadalupe (Sacred Heart hosts her feast day December 12 for the entire archdiocese) and Óscar Romero, the slain Archbishop of San Salvador, though the movement to beatify and possibly canonize Romero appears stalled.

Susan S. Jacobs

Her Foreign Service career has also included tours in Caracas, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Bucharest, and San Salvador.

TACA Flight 390

TACA Flight 390 was a scheduled flight on May 30, 2008, by TACA Airlines from San Salvador, El Salvador, to Miami, Florida, United States, with intermediate stops at Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula in Honduras.

Tallest buildings in Central America

Historically most of the tallest building structures in Central America have been located in Guatemala City and San Salvador.

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.

Thomas Coville

2005 : North Atlantic crossing (east to west) also called the "discovery route" (Cadiz - San Salvador): in 10 days 11 hours, 50 minutes and 46 seconds

Tony Donlic

His first appearance came on September 15, 1977 in a 2-1 win over El Salvador in San Salvador.

Wilfredo Iraheta

In February 2011, Iraheta was candidate to become mayor of San Salvador.

William G. Connare

In 1980, Connare attended the funeral of Archbishop Óscar Romero in San Salvador, where 40 people were killed during a violent outbreak at the Mass.

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.


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.

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.