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San Salvador (Spanish pronunciation: [san salβaˈðoɾ];) is the capital and the largest city [5] of El Salvador and its eponymous department. [6] It is the country's largest agglomeration, serving as the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. [7] The municipality of San Salvador has 525,990 inhabitants (2024). [8]
The San Salvador Volcano (also known as Quezaltepeque or El Boquerón) is a stratovolcano situated northwest to the city of San Salvador. The crater has been nearly filled with a relatively newer edifice, the Boquerón volcano. San Salvador is adjacent to the volcano and the western section of the city actually lies among its slopes.
San Salvador Island, previously Watling's Island, is an island and district of the Bahamas, famed for being the probable location of Christopher Columbus's first landing of the Americas on 12 October 1492 during his first voyage.
A painting of the First Independence Movement celebration in San Salvador. At the centre, José Matías Delgado. During the colonial period, San Salvador and San Miguel were part of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, also known as the Kingdom of Guatemala (Spanish: Reino de Guatemala), created in 1609 as an administrative division of New Spain.
San Salvador is representative of the central plateau, with an annual average temperature of 23 °C (73 °F) and absolute high and low readings of 38 and 6 °C (100.4 and 42.8 °F), respectively. [1] Mountain areas are the coolest, with annual averages from 12 to 23 °C (53.6 to 73.4 °F) and minimum temperatures sometimes approaching freezing.
The second wooden cathedral, completed in 1888, served as the seat of San Salvador's archbishops. On August 8, 1951, the Old San Salvador Cathedral was consumed by fire as a distraught crowd of onlookers watched. [1] For the next forty years, the San Salvador Cathedral was a barren concrete structure of exposed bricks and jutting iron buttresses.
The Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a 57-acre (23-hectare) "mega-prison", is located 70 km (43.5 miles) east of the capital, San Salvador, in a rural region of the Tecoluca district.
San Miguel (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsam miˈɣel]) is a city in eastern El Salvador. It is the country's third most populous city. It is located 138 km (86 mi) east of the capital, San Salvador. It is also the capital of the department of San Miguel and a municipality. The population of the city in 2024 was 290,612. [1]