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Map of El Salvador showing Cuscatlán department.
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Map of El Salvador showing Cuscatlán department.
Cuscatlán is a department of El Salvador in the center of the country. The capital is Cojutepeque. This is El Salvador's smallest department. It has 736.19 km² and more than 300,000 people.
It was created on May 22, 1835. Suchitoto was the first capital of the department but on November 12, 1861, Cojutepeque was made the capital.
It produces fruits, tobacco, sugar cane, coffee, etc.
On the North, there are a series of valleys and on the South is hilly.
Municipalities
- Candelaria
- Cojutepeque
- El Carmen
- El Rosario
- Monte San Juan
- Oratorio de Concepción
- San Bartolomé Perulapía
- San Cristóbal
- San José Guayabal
- San Pedro Perulapán
- San Rafael Cedros
- San Ramón
- Santa Cruz Analquito
- Santa Cruz Michapa
- Suchitoto
- Tenancingo