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29 unusual facts about El Salvador


Adolfo Menéndez

Adolfo Humberto Menéndez Cortéz (born 13 April 1970 in Santa Ana, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran footballer who currently acts as goalkeeper coach at C.D. FAS.

Andrés Ignacio Menéndez

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

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.

Efrain Burgos

Efraín Antonio Burgos (born 4 November 1961 in Santa Ana, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran football (soccer) player.

El Salvador, Chile

Anaconda Copper Mining Company was concerned about declining reserves in its Potrerillos mine and it sent prospectors in search of a new Chilean ore body in 1951.

El Salvador, Misamis Oriental

These are Asia Brewery, Tanduay Rhum, Virgin Cola Bottling Plant (Visayas and Mindanao region distributor), Highland Fresh Daily Products, Monark Equipment, The Aoso, Zest-O Corporation, WL Foods Corporation, Universal Robina Corporation and Union Plywood Corporation.

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.

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.

Fuerte Aguilares

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

Guillermo Josué Pino

Guillermo Josué Pino Martínez (born June 20, 1988 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran football player, who most recently played as a goalkeeper for Luis Ángel Firpo .

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.

Juan Francisco Barraza

Born in the district of San Miguel as the son of Maria de la Cruz Barraza and Juan de God Flores, he attended Dr Antonio Rosales primary school.

Juan Ramón Martínez

Juan Ramón "Mon" Martínez (born April 20, 1948 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a retired football player from El Salvador.

Kevin Santamaria

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

Mario Castillo

Mario Alfonso Castillo Díaz (born 30 October 1957 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a retired football player.

Moisés Girón

Moisés Fernando Girón (Born July 17, 1987 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who most recently played for C.D. Vista Hermosa.

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 Antonio García

Raúl Antonio García Herrera (born September 13, 1962 in San Miguel, 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.

Rodrigo Ávila

Ávila himself was not substantially involved in partisan politics until he was asked by the ARENA leadership to run as mayor of Santa Tecla, a small suburb of San Salvador.

Ronald Pimentel

Ronald Alexander Pimentel (born September 17, 1985 in Sonsonate) is a professional football player, who currently plays for Once Municipal in the Salvadoran Premier League .

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.

Víctor Velásquez

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

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.


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.

A.D. Municipal

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

Alexander Escobar

Alexander Escobar Rosales (born April 4, 1984 in Metapán, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for A.D. Isidro Metapán in the Salvadoran Premier League.

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.

C.D. Atlético Chaparratique

Club Deportivo Atletico Chaparrastique , commonly known as Atletico Chaparrastique are a Salvadoran professional football club based in Moncagua, San Miguel, El Salvador.

C.D. Pasaquina

Club Deportivo Pasaquina Futbol Club, commonly known as Pasaquina F.C. are a Salvadoran professional football club based in Pasaquina, La Unión Department.

Carlos Francisco Jovel Navas

Carlos Francisco Jovel Navas (Born January 6, 1982 in Usulután, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran professional football player who currently plays for Luis Ángel Firpo in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

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

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.

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.

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).

Fernando Sáenz Lacalle

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

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.

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.

Herber Barrera

Herber Antonio Barrera Romero (born April 28, 1987 in Usulután, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer.

Holy Spirit Grotto

The Holy Spirit Grotto (La Gruta del Espíritu Santo in Spanish), in Corinto, Morazán, El Salvador, is a registered national monument of petroglyphs.

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 Manfredi Portillo Hernández

José Manfredi Portillo Hernández (Born July 15, 1985 in Moncagua) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Vista Hermosa in the Salvadoran Premier Division.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mario Mayén Meza

Mario Ernesto Mayén Meza (born on 19 May 1968 in La Libertad, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran professional footballer.

Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley

Sudeley was also a former Vice-president of the now-defunct Western Goals Institute, and on 25 September 1989, chaired a WGI dinner at Simpson's-in-the-Strand for El Salvador's President, Alfredo Cristiani, and his inner cabinet.

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.

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.

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.

Rigoberto Guzmán

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

Roberto D'Aubuisson

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

Rubén Quijada

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

San José Las Flores, Chalatenango

San José Las Flores is a municipality and city in Chalatenango Department, El Salvador.

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.

University of Navarra School of Law

Approximately 70% of its Law Students come from the other regions of Spain and from a long list of countries, which includes:Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, México, France, Albania, Jamaica y Portugal, amongst others.

Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary

The filmmakers follow Nayo and Milton (whose surnames are not given), migrants from Chinandega, Nicaragua as they cross through Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States in their attempt to reach Canada.