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SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency on Sunday over tropical storm Pilar, which the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) says is expected to ...
San Miguel (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsam miˈɣel]) is a city in eastern El Salvador. It is the country's third most populous city. It is located 138 km (86 mi) east of the capital, San Salvador. It is also the capital of the department of San Miguel and a municipality. The population of the city in 2024 was 290,612 [1].
The remainder of San Salvador department is renamed to Cuscatlan, and Metapan district is transferred to Sonsonate department. [2] [3] May 17, 1839: Cuscatlan's Olocuitla district and San Vicente's Zacatecoluca district are combined into the new department of La Paz. [4] July 30, 1839: The Federal District of San Salvador is dissolved, and San ...
Before the Spanish conquest of El Salvador, the territory that now consists of the departments of San Miguel, La Unión and Morazán was the Lenca kingdom of Chaparrastique (Place of Beautiful Orchids). [1] San Miguel was first known as San Miguel de la Frontera. The city was founded by Luis de Moscoso on May 8, 1530, where it is now Santa Elena.
In the last decade or so, El Salvador has gone from among the most violent countries in the world to among Latin America’s safest. The country’s official homicide rate dropped from 106 per ...
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - The head of El Salvador's police forces and a man accused of a multi-million dollar embezzlement were killed when the military helicopter in which they were travelling ...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Salvadorans voted in presidential and legislative elections Sunday, with many expressing willingness to forego some elements of democracy if it means keeping ...
On January 2, 1991, a U.S. Army helicopter carrying three American soldiers was shot down by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) nearby the village of Lolotique, San Miguel Department, El Salvador. The two surviving soldiers were summarily executed by FMLN forces in one of the most infamous incidents during El Salvador's civil ...