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Calling code: +503 [1]; International call prefix: 00 [5]; Fixed lines: 1.1 million lines in use, 74th in the world (2012). [1]Mobile cellular: 8.7 million lines, 88th in the world (2012); [1] in 2007 the number of mobile phones exceeded the country's population giving the country a 1.06 per capita cellphone penetration rate.
El Salvador, [a] officially the Republic of El Salvador, [b] is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2024 was estimated to be 6 million according to a ...
Television in El Salvador began in 1956 in black and white on YSEB-TV, which would bring attention to the radio broadcasting industry in the 1960s. It was so much so that it was part of the Salvadoran Association Broadcasting (ASDER) in 1964 to confront stagnation, in response to the political crisis during the era of military authoritarianism.
In 1985, under the leadership of the Salvadoran-Palestinian businessman, Jorge Emilio Zedán (1935–2012), YSWX began a second phase of its history, breaking with the traditional schemes of Salvadoran television, with its advertising phrase Canal 12 dares to occupy a place in the minds of Salvadorans, especially from the news, because as expressed in his second slogan, he dared to present ...
The first railroad in El Salvador was opened between Sonsonate and the port of Acajutla on June 4, 1882, by the British private company The Salvador Railway Construction Co. The first locomotives were American Tai models, built in England. [2] In the following years, the lines extended to Santa Ana, San Salvador and other places.
Main pyramid at the Acrópolis site, San Andrés La Campana pyramid (structure 5), San Andrés Structures of San Andrés. San Andrés (formerly known as Campana San Andrés) is a pre-Columbian site in El Salvador, [1] whose occupation began around the year 900 BC as an agricultural town in the valley of Zapotitán in the department of La Libertad.
The Salvadoran Stock Exchange (Spanish: Bolsa de Valores de El Salvador, BVES) is the stock exchange in the nation of El Salvador. [1] The exchange is used for the securitization of various government infrastructure projects. It is overseen by Central Securities Depository (CEDEVAL). Rolando Duarte is the President, and Valentín Arrieta is the ...
The Central America-4 Border Control Agreement (CA-4) was a treaty signed in June 2006 between the Central American nations of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, establishing the free movement across borders between the four signatory states of their citizens without any restrictions or checks. Foreign nationals who enter one of ...