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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.
El Salvador's energy sector is largerly focused on renewables. El Salvador is the largest producer of geothermal energy in Central America.Except for hydroelectric generation, which is almost totally owned and operated by the public company CEL (Comisión Hidroeléctrica del Río Lempa), the rest of the generation capacity is in private hands.
Geothermal power in El Salvador represents 25% of the country's total electricity production. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] El Salvador is one of the top ten geothermal energy producers in the world. Since 1975, the Ahuachapán geothermal field has been in continuous and successful commercial operation .
El Salvador is a popular destination for surf tourism due to the large waves present in the Pacific Ocean. Alegría Lake "The Emerald of America". Lake Coatepeque in the west of the country The San Miguel (volcano) during the eruption of December 29, 2013. the photographer snapped this picture of the Los Chorros Water Falls, which is only a few ...
The El Salvador Caucus was established by Gaetz on 8 July 2024. He and Democratic congressman Vicente Gonzalez became the caucus' co-chairmen. The caucus was founded one month after they and four other U.S. congress members — representatives Adriano Espaillat, María Elvira Salazar, and Lou Correa, and Senator Mike Lee — attended Bukele's second inauguration on June 1, 2024 in San Salvador ...
Blue Room of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador. The Salvadoran legislature is a unicameral body. Until 2024, it was made up of 84 deputies, all of whom are elected by direct popular vote according to open-list proportional representation to serve three-year terms and are eligible for immediate re-election.
Armando Calderón Sol (24 June 1948 – 9 October 2017) was President of El Salvador from 1 June 1994, to 1 June 1999, representing the Nationalist Republican Alliance. He was the first president elected in El Salvador after twelve years of civil war .
28 October – A joint military-police operation involving 2,500 security personnel is launched to find suspected gang members in the 10 de Octubre neighborhood of San Salvador. [ 14 ] 30 October – The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador approves a proposal to send soldiers to Haiti as part of the United Nations Multinational Security Support ...