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Pages in category "Hurricanes in El Salvador" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
The 1934 Central America hurricane (called the El Salvador hurricane by meteorologist Ivan Ray Tannehill) [1] was a deadly tropical cyclone during the 1934 Atlantic hurricane season which caused at least 506 fatalities in Central America.
The Salvadoran Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, [28] and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of left-wing guerilla groups backed by the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Union. [4]
Honduras (/ h ɒ n ˈ dj ʊər ə s,-ˈ d ʊər-/ ⓘ, /-æ s /; [5] Spanish: ⓘ), officially the Republic of Honduras (Spanish: República de Honduras), is a country in Central America. To the north of Honduras are Guatemala and Belize, to the south is Nicaragua, to the west is El Salvador, and to the east is the Caribbean Sea.
The 10 costliest Atlantic hurricanes as of January 2023.. As of November 2024, there have been 1,745 tropical cyclones of at least tropical storm intensity, 971 at hurricane intensity, and 338 at major hurricane intensity within the Atlantic Ocean since 1851, the first Atlantic hurricane season to be included in the official Atlantic tropical cyclone record. [1]
The 2009 El Salvador floods and mudslides occurred November 6–9 affecting areas including San Salvador, La Paz, Cuscatlan, Usulutan and San Vicente. The disaster was triggered by a low-pressure system from the Pacific, and flooding from heavy rains caused mud and rock slides that killed approximately 130 people and left 60 missing.
Only eight hurricanes have killed more than 100 people since 1950, the last time a storm as deadly as Helene hit the US came in 2017, when Hurricane Harvey made landfall near Houston and was ...
The Salvadoran Civil War was a military conflict that pitted the guerrilla forces of the left-wing Marxist-oriented Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) against the armed and security forces loyal to the military-led conservative government of El Salvador, between 1979 and 1992.