Information on El Salvador

INTRODUCTION

•  Full name: Republica de El Salvador

•  Capital City: San Salvador

•  Language: Spanish (official), English

•  Currency: US Dollar - US$

•  Religion: Roman Catholic, Protestant

•  National Anthem: Saludemos la patria orgullosos (Latin American epic anthem)

•  Newspaper: Diario Co Latino , El Diario de Hoy

•  Places to Visit: Ilamatepec, Tazumal, La Libertad, San Vicente, La Palma, San Miguel, Cathedral Palacio Nacional, National Treasury and the National Theatre, Parque Zoologico.

•  Transport: Travel through TACA Airlines from Comalapa International Airport or avail car that passes from the Pan-American highway, or tour to various places in bus routes.

•  Shopping: T owels designed in Maya patterns or hilasal towels. Get handicrafts, fine wooden products, paintings, ceramics, handloom hammocks, native dolls, and leather goods

Travel to the most developed commercial sector, which is densely populated and equivalently attractive, known as El Salvador. Reputed as the surfers paradise where one can choose to surf all day long at San Salvador, El Sunzal, El Zonte and the El Este. The place derived its present name from the Spanish word -The Saviour. It was meant to honor the territories of Jesus Christ, which were known as Cuscatlán. El Salvador is packed with isolated beaches, molten volcanoes, charming colonial towns, beautiful coconut islands and many others.

LOCATION OF EL SALVADOR

El Salvador is quietly nestled within the Central America while being a part of the North American continent. The place is engulfed from the southwestern region by the Pacific Ocean, and is placed well in the midst of Guatemala and Honduras.

PHYSICAL MAP OF EL SALVADOR

As El Salvador is known for its tiny size and is even referred to as the Tom Thumb of the Americas. The place is bordered with rivers that descend to the Pacific Ocean. Among these names can be mentioned about the meandering rivers that passes through this region which are mainly Goascorán, Jiboa, Torola, Paz and the Río Grande de San Miguel. Several volcanic craters can be sighted adjacent to the important lakes like Lake Ilopango and Lake Coatepeque. Cerro El Pital is known for being placed at the highest point within the country.

CLIMATE OF EL SALVADOR

The climatic condition of El Salvador is tropical in nature manifested with wet and dry seasons that vary in accordance with the seasonal change. The low-lying Pacific areas are affected with the humid weather conditions whereas the central plateau region or mountainous areas are moderate and cooler in nature respectively.

Invierno the natively word for rainy or winter season affects the areas from the month of May to October. The southern mountainous slopes are prone to heavy down pouring accompanied with thunderstorms, which is influenced by low pressure caused at the Pacific.

It is during the month of November to April, El Salvador witnesses dry and sultry weather condition, as the northeast trade winds ascending from the Caribbean, affects the air that carry precipitation and dries out by the time it reaches the Honduras mountains. The local people know this season as Verano.

FLORA AND FAUNA OF EL SALVADOR

The native trees of this region that grows along the northern mountainous region are mangrove, rubber, dogwood, mahogany, cedar, walnut, pine and oak.

Balsam is the medicinal gum plant along with orchid trees that is grown within the country in abundance.

The native fauna of this region are monkey, jaguar, coyote, tapir, parrots and armadillo.

Different species of hummingbirds can be sighted at the Cerro Verde National Park. 

Visit the Parque Nacional Montecristo, popularly known as the cloud forest reserve that is filled with innumerable species of animals and plants.

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