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A street in San Ignacio town. San Ignacio is a municipality of El Salvador. It is located in the department of Chalatenango, to a distance of 87 km. from San Salvador, and to 8 km. of the international border with Honduras. The municipality takes its name in honor of Ignatius of Loyola. Their celebrations are from July 23 to July 31.
La Palma is part of the mountainous zone of El Salvador, enjoying a cool climate. [2] Administratively, the municipality is divided in 8 cantons and 87 small villages (caserios) in the rural area and 6 districts in the urban area. On July 1 of 1956, it was estimated that the population of La Palma was 5,337, 2,780 male and 2,957 female.
The municipalities of El Salvador, called municipios are composed by 262 in total. Each one having its own capital and a variable number of cantons ; these are conformed of caseríos. In June 2023, President Nayib Bukele proposed the reduction of municipal councils to 44, with former municipalities becoming districts.
Chalatenango (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃalateˈnaŋɡo]) is a department of El Salvador located in the northwest of the country. The department's capital city is the city of Chalatenango, which shares the same name as the department.
In 1550 Chalatenango had 600 inhabitants. The mayor of San Salvador, don Manuel de Gálvez de Corral, wrote that in 1740 San Juan Chalatenango had about 125 inhabitants and 25 heads of tributary indigenous families. He claimed that the area was “very hot and healthy.”
San Antonio de la Cruz; San Antonio Los Ranchos; San Fernando, Chalatenango; San Francisco Lempa; San Francisco Morazán; San Ignacio, El Salvador; San Isidro Labrador, El Salvador; San José Cancasque; San Luis del Carmen; San Miguel de Mercedes; San Rafael, El Salvador; Santa Rita, El Salvador
Chalatenango (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃalateˈnaŋɡo]; known as "Chalate" by locals) is a town and district in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador. It is the capital of the department. As of 1 May 2021, Alfredo Hernández of Nuevas Ideas (NI) is the municipality's mayor. [2]
The Core Relocations (Spanish: Reubicación Núcleos) are a neighborhood composed of three circular settlements located on the outskirts of Chalatenango, El Salvador.The Core Relocations were built by the Salvadoran government during the 1970s to relocated almost 10,000 people displaced by the flooding of the Cerrón Grande Reservoir.