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Retrieved 2020-04-07. ^ "M 5.7 - 3 km S of San Vicente, El Salvador". earthquake.usgs.gov. ^ "M 4.0 - 2 km S of San Pablo Tacachico, El Salvador". United States Geological Survey. 1987-01-15. ^ National Earthquake Information Center (10 October 1986). "M 4.6 - 2 km SE of Apopa, El Salvador". United States Geological Survey.
The Terrorism Confinement Center ( Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated and commonly referred to as CECOT) is a maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amidst a large-scale gang crackdown in El Salvador and was opened by the Salvadoran government in January 2023.
944 dead, 5,565 injured in El Salvador. 8 dead in Guatemala [2] [4] The January 2001 El Salvador earthquake struck El Salvador on January 13, 2001, at 17:33:34 UTC. The 7.6 (later estimated to be 7.7 or 7.9) [1] quake struck with the epicenter 60 miles (100 km) SW of San Miguel, El Salvador (13.04°N 88.66°W) at a depth of 60 km (31 mi).
Abridged version played before a football game at RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C., in 2011. In 1866, at the initiative of doctor Francisco Dueñas, who at the time was President of the Republic, the first national anthem of El Salvador was created by Cuban doctor Tomás M. Muñoz, who wrote the lyrics, and Salvadoran musician Rafael Orozco, who composed the music.
Known for. Murder victim. Christian Gregorio Poveda Ruiz (January 12, 1957 [1] – September 2, 2009), known as Christian Poveda, was a Hispanic - French photojournalist and film director. [2] He covered the world's conflict zones for more than 30 years. [3] Poveda's documentary film La Vida Loca [ fr] (2008) is about two rival gangs in El ...
El Salvador, [ a] officially the Republic of El Salvador, [ b] is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2023 was estimated to be 6.5 million.
The total land area of El Salvador is 23,041 km 2, with 20,721 km 2 of land and 320 km 2 of water. El Salvador is about the size of Israel and the U.S states of New Jersey and Vermont, but has the population size of Libya and Lebanon. El Salvador has 590 km of borders, including 391 km of borders with Honduras and 199 km with Guatemala. El ...
The Salvadoran Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve-year period of civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or "umbrella organization" of left-wing groups backed by the Cuban regime of Fidel Castro as well as the Soviet Union. [4]