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Antiguo Cuscatlán (colloquially known as Antiguo) is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador; its eastern tip lies in the San Salvador Department part of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, southwest of San Salvador and southeast of Santa Tecla. The population was 47,956 at the 2020 census.
With a surface area of 756.19 square kilometres (291.97 sq mi), it is El Salvador's smallest department. Cuscatlán or Cuzcatlán was the name the original inhabitants of the Western part of the country gave to most of the territory that is now El Salvador. In their language it means "land of precious jewels". It was created on 22 May 1835.
The population of the area surrounding Suchitoto is of pre-Columbian origin, and its inhabitants belonged to the Nahua ethnic group. [3] It was already a densely populated site upon the arrival of the Spanish conquerors, who reestablished the town of San Salvador about 12 km from the area by Diego de Alvarado. in the Bermuda Valley in April 1528, by order of the lieutenant governor and captain ...
Nuevo Cuscatlán is a municipality of El Salvador, belonging to the department of La Libertad, it is located 13 kilometers from San Salvador. [1] It borders to the north and east with Antiguo Cuscatlán, to the south with Huizúcar and San José Villanueva and to the west with Santa Tecla.
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El Salvador became an independent republic in 1839. The United States recognized El Salvador as an independent state on May 1, 1849. [2] [3] The American Legation in San Salvador was opened under Minister Resident James R. Partridge on June 15, 1863. [4]
The Plaza de la Catedral and the front of the Cathedral of Havana. Plaza de la Catedral (English: Cathedral Square) is one of the four main squares in Old Havana and the site of the Cathedral of Havana from which it takes its name. [1]
Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo: 2000 1008; iii, iv (cultural) During the 19th and early 20th centuries, eastern Cuba was primarily involved with coffea cultivation. The remnants of the plantations display the techniques used in the difficult terrain, as well as the economic and social significance of the plantation system in Cuba and the ...