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38 unusual facts about El Salvador


Alejandro de la Cruz Bentos

During his time with the Santa Ana club, he would go on to play an integral part in the club winning the league title 5 times from 2002 to 2005.

Álvaro Misael Alfaro

Álvaro Misael Alfaro Sánchez (born January 6, 1971 in Nueva San Salvador, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran footballer.

Andrés Ignacio Menéndez

Brigadier General Andrés Ignacio Menéndez (1 February 1879–7 June 1962) was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador.

ASAPROSAR

Headquartered in Santa Ana, El Salvador, ASAPROSAR has over 200 local employees in the education, health and social work fields.

C.D. Sonsonate

Founded in 1948, the club was known as C.D. Sonsonate, also playing in the town of Sonsonate, They are the most used named by the club.

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.

César Larios

César Alexander Larios Flores (born April 21, 1988 in Santa Ana, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Águila in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

Cristian Edgardo Álvarez

Cristian Edgardo Álvarez Cruz (born 19 April 1978 in Santa Ana) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for FAS in the Salvadoran Premier League.

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.

Ernesto Ochoa

José Ernesto Ochoa Fuentes (born June 21, 1986 in La Unión, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran professional footballer who most recently played for Aspirante in the Salvadoran second division.

Foreign relations of Costa Rica

Costa Rica also hosted several rounds of negotiations between the Salvadoran Government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), aiding El Salvador's efforts to emerge from civil war and culminating in that country's 1994 free and fair elections.

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.

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 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 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.

Kevin Santamaria

Kevin Oswaldo Santamaría Guzmán (born January 11, 1991 in Santa Tecla, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football midfielder.

Marcelo Tejeda

Marcelo Javier Tejeda Brugnoli (born August 5, 1986 in Santa Ana, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer of Uruguayan descent.

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.

Nuestra Belleza El Salvador 2012

Nuestra Belleza El Salvador 2012 took place on April 27, 2012 at the Hotel Royal Decameron in Salinitas, Sonsonate.

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.

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.

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.

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 Corcio Zavaleta

Raúl Corcio Zavaleta (born 20 March 1937 in Santa Ana, 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.

Salvador Mariona

Salvador Antonio Mariona Rivera (born 27 December 1943 in Santa Tecla, El Salvador) is a retired soccer player from El Salvador who represented his country at the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

Shawn Martin

At the age of 2, he moved to Nicaragua due to conflicts in the country at the time and since his aunt Carol Henriquez had lived in Santa Tecla, his aunt helped them out to start a new life.

Tepetitán

Tepetitán, El Salvador, in the département of San Vicente in El Salvador

Thecla

Santa Tecla, formerly Nuevo San Salvador, in La Libertad, El Salvador

Universidad Autónoma de Santa Ana

The Universidad Autónoma de Santa Ana is a university in Santa Ana, El Salvador.

Víctor Velásquez

Víctor Manuel Velásquez Molina (born April 12, 1976 in La Unión) is a retired Salvadoran football player.

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.


1980 Dominican Embassy siege in Bogotá

The hostages included the Papal nuncio to Colombia, Angelo Acerbi, as well as the ambassadors from fourteen countries: Austria, Brazil, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Israel, Mexico, Switzerland, the United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

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.

Benjamín Durán

Benjamín Hernán Durán Figueroa (born July 17, 1988 in Chalchuapa, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football forward who currently plays for Once Municipal in the Salvadoran Premier division.

Carlos Ayala

Carlos Ernesto Ayala Amaya (born December 23, 1982 in Soyapango, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier League.

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.

Edgar Palacios

According to Amnesty International, Palacios among other church leaders, was targeted for "termination" by a death squad led by Roberto D'Aubuisson.

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.

False title

He added that the phrase "right-wing spokesman Maj. Roberto D'Aubuisson" was ambiguous, as the reader could not tell whether D'Aubuisson was the single spokesman for the Salvadoran right wing or one of many.

Family dictatorship

El Salvador: Carlos Meléndez (1915–1918), succeeded by his brother Jorge Meléndez (1919–1923), succeeded by his brother-in-law Alfonso Quiñónez Molina (acting 1918-1919, 1923–1927)

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).

Fidel Mondragón

Fidel Eduardo Mondragón Palomo (born February 24, 1981 in Jiquilisco) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Isidro Metapán in the Salvadoran Premier League.

Fuerte Aguilares

Club Deportivo Fuerte Aguilares, commonly known as Fuerte Aguilares are a Salvadoran professional football club based in Aguilares.

Gabriel Perrone

He did not have great success as a player his career was ended by a Cruciate ligament injury after playing in the lower leagues with Atlanta and CD FAS of El Salvador.

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.

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.

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).

José Belarmino Jaime

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

José Campos

José Eduardo Campos Barahona (born March 15, 1983 in Usulután, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier League.

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.

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.

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.

Leonel Cubas

Leonel Catán Cubas (Born unknown - died 22 February 2007 in Santa Ana, El Salvador) was a football player from El Salvador.

Lifestyle Center La Gran Via

La Gran Vía, is a shopping mall tipe Life style center located in Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador.

Luis Miguel Hernández

Luis Miguel Hernández Campos (born February 9, 1985 in Chinameca, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran First Division.

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.

Milton Meléndez

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

Milton Molina

Milton Alexander Molina Miguel (born 2 February 1989 in Santa Cruz, Metapán, El Salvador), is a Salvadoran footballer, who currently plays for A.D. Isidro Metapán, and internationally for the El Salvador national 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 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.

Permanent Peoples' Tribunal

The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal examined the cases of Tibet, Western Sahara, Argentina, Eritrea, Philippine, El Salvador, Afghanistan, East Timor, Zaïre, Guatemala, the Armenian Genocide or recently the Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka, the intervention of the United States in Nicaragua, Brazilian Amazon, etc.

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 .

Rigoberto Guzmán

Rigoberto "Rigo" Guzmán Calderón (born June 11, 1932 in Atiquizaya, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran football (soccer) player and manager.

Rubén Quijada

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

Selvin Bonifacio Zepeda

Selvin Bonifacio Zepeda Morales (born 13 July 1981 in San Sebastián) is a Salvadoran football player who represented El Salvador at international level.

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.

Terencio Sierra

After studying in Comayagua he became a typographist in El Salvador before travelling through Central and South America as an accountant in the shipping industry.

Well-Founded Fear

Cases examined within the film involve individuals originating from China, El Salvador, Albania, Nigeria, Romania, Algeria, France and Russia.

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.