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unusual facts about San Salvador, El Salvador



A.D. Municipal

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

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.

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 Osorto

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

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Manuel Salazar

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Quelepa

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

Rafael Arévalo

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

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 .

Roberto D'Aubuisson

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

Salarrué

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.


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