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unusual facts about San Salvador, 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.

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.

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.

Carlos Antonio Meléndez

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

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.

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 Sáenz Lacalle

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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 Guzmán Tapia

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

Manuel Salazar

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

Milton Meléndez

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

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.

Quelepa

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

Roman Catholicism in El Salvador

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

Salarrué

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

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).

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.

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.

Wilfredo Iraheta

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


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