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EL SALVADOR, is located in Central America which is between Mexico and Ecuador. It has 199.46 miles of coast. Very wide beaches of volcanic origen's black sand from where you can see in the westerner side's coast, the mountain range: La Cordillera del Balsamo where San Salvador, Izalco, Santa Ana and others volcanoes are located. The surrounding is very green, full of tropical foliage and wild flowers. Tide is very high and strong in this area of Pacific Ocean. The weather is tropical with slow hot wind when It is sunny and when an electrical storm is forming, the landscape is just full of so many natural songs that it relaxes you completly. You laid down in a hammock under a rustic roof and enjoy recording all these unique natural melodious ecological songs while you are eating seafood as: lobster, oysters, famous white shrimps, cocktel de conchas, a delicious fried curvina fish or a cup of pure coffee if it is too cool. For someone it is 5 o'clock somewhere, time for a margarita drink. You ask for what you want and you will get it right at the table beside your hammock.
EL SALVADOR has 14 Departamentos divided in three zones:
THE WEST ZONE (Occidente):Departamentos of SANTA ANA, AHUACHAPAN and SONSONATE.
THE CENTRAL ZONE: Departamentos of CHALATENANGO, CABANAS, CUSCATLAN, LA LIBERTAD (Where American Embassy and the new residential area is located at) SAN SALVADOR (The Capital City), LA PAZ (Where The International Airport is located at) and SAN VICENTE.
and THE EAST ZONE (Oriente): Departamentos of USULUTAN, SAN MIGUEL, MORAZAN y LA UNION.
EL SALVADOR produces coffee and the best mountain coffee of the land comes from Apaneca, Ataco in Ahuachapan and Juayua in Sonsonate. All in The West Zone. East Zone produces grains as rice and it is low altitude land.
The longest-distace to drive from Capital City it is to La Union City, 114 miles one way which it's located in the Departamento of the same name. The whole country is only 13,074.11 square miles. One can drive from one end to the other in only a few hours.
The highest volcano is Santa Ana with 7,759.39 feet but the highest places are: Cerro El Pital with 8,956.80 feet, located north of Departamento of Chalatenango in the border with Honduras and mountain Montecristo with 7,933.04 feet north of Departamento of Santa Ana, located among Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador. One can see the three countries from the top.
El Salvador International Airport is located south of Departamento of La Paz, close to Las Hojas Beach and Jiboa river mouth. It is also close to well visited by vacationists Costa del Sol Beach where there is a fine hotel: El Tesoro Beach Hotel..
Take note: SANTA ELENA became a city in 1930. It is an small town and it is located at Departamento of Usulutan north east of Usulutan City with a population of 14,801.
And SANTA ELENA which is a residential area of the metropolitan area. It is located at Departamento of La Libertad and it is very close to the Capital City of San Salvador (Left end below in San Salvador City Map). American Embassy is located in that area.
Lately The Metropolitan Area is taking land of surrounding Departamento of La Libertad forming El Gran San Salvador.
Just like States in U.S.A. are divided into Counties, Departamentos are divided into Municipios in
El Salvador. For instance, Departamento of La Libertad is divided into 22 Municipios.
The residential area of Santa Elena is in The Municipio of Antiguo Cuscatlan. Departamento de
La Libertad
El Salvador is the most thickly populated country in the Continent of America (782.13 persons per sq ml) and it is slightly smaller than Massachusetts. 6,353,681 inhabitants living in8,123.54 sq ml. As you can deduce there is not such a thing as a jungle in El Salvador and like as in a very conglomerate place, all sort of things are happening there. Seek for advice..