San Salvador
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| Coordinates: 13°41′56″N 89°11′29″W / 13.69889°N 89.19139°WCoordinates: 13°41′56″N 89°11′29″W / 13.69889°N 89.19139°W | |
| Country |  El Salvador |
| Department |  San Salvador |
| Metro | San Salvador Metropolitan Area |
| Founded | 1525 |
| Founded by | Pedro de Alvarado |
| Named for | Divine Savior |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor–council government |
| • Mayor | Mario Durán |
| Area | |
| • Capital city | 72.25 km2 (27.90 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 651.31 km2 (251.47 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 658 m (2,159 ft) |
| Population (2024) | |
| • Capital city | 330,543[1] |
| • Rank | 1st, El Salvador |
| • Density | 4,600/km2 (11,800/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,538,525 |
| • Metro | 2,177,432[2] |
| • Metro density | 3,343.16/km2 (8,658.7/sq mi) |
| GDP (PPP, constant 2015 values) | |
| • Year | 2023 |
| • Total (Metro) | $14.7 billion[3] |
| • Per capita | $13,200 |
| Time zone | UTC−06:00 (CST) |
| SV-SS | CP 1101 |
| HDI (2018) | 0.704 − high[4] |
| Website | sansalvador.gob.sv |
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San Salvador is the capital city and the largest city of El Salvador. It is the country's largest agglomeration, serving as the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center.[5] San Salvador has a population of 330,000.[6]
The city is home to the Consejo de Ministros de El Salvador (Council of Ministries of El Salvador), the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador, the Supreme Court of El Salvador, and other governmental institutions, as well as the official residence of the president of El Salvador.
San Salvador is located in the Salvadoran highlands, surrounded by volcanoes and prone to earthquakes. The city is also home to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador, as well as many Protestant branches of Christianity, including Evangelicals, Baptists, and Pentecostals, and the restorationist Christian sect the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
San Salvador has been the host city for regional and international sporting, political, and social events. It hosted the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1935, 2002, and in 2023 and the Central American Games in 1977 and 1994, as well as the Miss Universe pageant in 1975 and in 2023. San Salvador was also the host city of the 18th Ibero-American Summit in 2008, the most important sociopolitical event in the Spanish and Portuguese sphere.[7] The Central American Integration System has its headquarters in San Salvador.[8]
San Salvador Media
In 1873, the president and marshals Santiago González Portillo issued an executive decree, by which he ordered the immediate reconstruction of the city of San Salvador, devastated two days earlier by the Great Earthquake of San José.
View of the street of the capital of El Salvador, San Salvador, in 1927
The Monument to Peace, built in 1994, to commemorate the Chapultepec Peace Accords.
San Salvador as darkness descends on its greater metropolitan area
Satellite image of Greater San Salvador. East (right) of the city lies Lake Ilopango, and to the west (left) rises the San Salvador volcano. The beaches of the Central American Pacific coast (bottom) lie just south of the city.
View of Lake Ilopango and the eastern San Salvador Valley
San Salvador City lies at the foot of San Salvador volcano.
Aerial view of Lake Ilopango caldera
Plaza Futura Fountain at World Trade Center San Salvador
References
- ↑ VII Censo de Población 2024
- ↑ Global BR DataBRT+ CoE. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ↑ TelluBase—El Salvador Fact SheetTellusant. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
- ↑ Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab. GlobalDataLab.
- ↑ [1] Archived 27 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Demographia World Urban Areas 17th Annual Edition: 202106
- ↑ Ibero-American Summit
- ↑ Central American Bank for Economic Integration