San Salvador Department
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Map of El Salvador showing San Salvador department.
San Salvador is a department of El Salvador in the west central part of the country. The capital is San Salvador, which is also the national capital. The department has North of the Rio Lempa Valley, the "Valle de las Hamacas" (Hammock Valley) and a section of Lake Ilopango.
Some of the cities that are densly populated are: San Salvador, Delgado City, Mejicanos, Soyapango, Panchimalco and Apopa.
The department covers an area of 886.15 km² and has a population of more than 1 million.
It was made department on June 12, 1824. During the time of the colony, the department was the San Salvador Party, from where it was taken territory to make the departments of Chalatenago, La Libertad, Cuscatlan and La Paz.
This department produces beans, coffee, sugar cane, etc.
Municipalities
- Aguilares
- Apopa
- Ayutuxtepeque
- Cuscatancingo
- Delgado
- El Paisnal
- Guazapa
- Ilopango
- Mejicanos
- Nejapa
- Panchimalco
- Rosario de Mora
- San Marcos
- San Martín
- San Salvador
- Santiago Texacuangos
- Santo Tomás
- Soyapango
- Tonacatepeque