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Villa El Salvador began in 1971 as a squatted pueblo joven (or shanty town) in the vast, empty sand flats to the south of Lima because of the urgent housing needs of immigrant families who had left the sierra of central Peru. A land invasion quickly created a town of 25,000 people. By 2008, it had grown to 350,000 people. [2] Villa El Salvador ...
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Views with the Google Trekker of the Villa Inflammable, Villa La Carbonilla and Rodrigo Bueno neighborhoods in Buenos Aires, [38] plus updates throughout the country [39] July 2019 Tourist sites in Bogotá, including Parque Mirador de los Nevados, the Quebrada Las Delicias and the San Francisco trail – Vicachá [40]
Ricardo García Posada Airport (IATA: ESR, ICAO: SCES), formerly El Salvador Bajo Airport, is an airport serving the copper mining community of El Salvador, in the Atacama Region of Chile. The airport is in the desert 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) southwest of El Salvador. The runway slopes upward to the east.
Suchitoto is a municipality in the Department of Cuscatlán, El Salvador that has seen continuous human habitation long before Spanish colonization. Within its municipal territory, Suchitoto holds the site of the original founding of the Villa of San Salvador in 1528 that existed for a short time before the site was abandoned.
The stadium is named after Iván Elías Moreno who was a young man from Villa El Salvador who was stabbed to death while trying to defend a teenager from being robbed. During his third term, district mayor Michel Azcueta decided to name the stadium to honor the memory of Moreno who had been his student while he, the mayor, was a school teacher ...
Irma Dimas of Sonsonate was Miss El Salvador in 2005. Claudia Lars was born in Armenia on December 20, 1899, and died in San Salvador on July 22, 1974. Her true name is Margarita del Carmen Brannon Vega. She was a poet that cultivated the sonnet and romance. She is considered the greatest lyrical voice of El Salvador of the 20th century.
The history of El Salvador begins with several distinct groups of Mesoamerican people, especially the Pipil, the Lenca and the Maya. In the early 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City .