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11 unusual facts about San Vicente


Boayan Island

Boayan Island is the largest island in San Vicente, Palawan, Philippines.

Carlos Monteagudo

Carlos Romeo Monteagudo Alfaro (born April 29, 1985 in San Vicente, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

Emerson Umaña

Emerson David Umaña Corleto (born November 12, 1981 in San Vicente, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football midfielder who currently plays for Águila in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

Emilie Schindler

Schindler lived with her pets for many years in her small house in San Vicente, 40 kilometres south-west of Buenos Aires.

Ildefonsus

Iberian missionaries spread the cult of San Ildefonso worldwide, including the San Ildefonso Peninsula and municipalities San Ildefonso, Bulacan and San Ildefonso, Ilocos Sur in the Phillippines, San Ildefonso Ixtahuacán in Guatemala, San Ildefonso, San Vicente in El Salavador and San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico.

Jaime Vladimir Cubías

Jaime Bladimir Cubías Alvarado (born May 10, 1974 in San Sebastián, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran football player.

Joaquín Escolán y Balibrera

On the following October 5, the Legislative Assembly, in agreement with Escolán, designed the city of San Vicente as the residence of the state authorities.

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.

Oscar Emigdio Benítez

Oscar Emigdio Benítez (born October 6, 1948 in San Vicente, El Salvador) is a former Salvadoran (El Salvador) football player and manager.

Pablo Angeles y David

Beloved by his hometown, a statue of him was erected at the plaza in front of the famous San Guillermo Parish Church in San Vicente, Bacolor.

Santos Castro

Santos Andres Castro Guerrero (born December 2, 1982 in San Vicente, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football player.


Big Bend National Park

The Presidio de San Vicente was built near present-day San Vicente, Coahuila, and the Presidio de San Carlos was built near present-day Manuel Benavides, Chihuahua.

Calle Ramón Emeterio Betances

Between the Luis Muñoz Rivera and San Vicente streets is the Betances House, where was placed the home of Dr. Betances in Mayagüez during the cholera epidemic of 1856.

History of El Salvador

In 1832, Anastasio Aquino led an indigenous revolt against Criollos and Mestizos in Santiago Nonualco, a small town in the province of San Vicente.