San Salvador

The Ceety o San Salvador is the caipital an lairgest ceety o the naition o El Salvador. Its complete name is La Ciudad de Gran San Salvador (The Ceety o the Great Holy Savior). 

It lies upon a seismic valley in the tropics, surroondit wit volcanos an prone tae yirdquauks, which is why the Pipil an the Spaniards cawed the aurie in which the metropolis is nou settled in "El Valle de las Hamacas" (The Valley o the Hammocks) due tae its constant seismic activity. It is the third lairgest an populous ceety in Central Americae efter Guatemala Ceety an Managua an the seicont maist populatit metropolitan aurie. San Salvador is an aa the maist modren an fastest-growin ceety in Central Americae. Hame tae ane-hauf o El Salvador's wealth, the ceety's per capita GDP - PPP is approximately USD11,200, compared tae a naitional average o USD5,260 (2002). The ceety haes a lang history, wi oreegins datin back tae the Spaingie conquest o the Pipil ceevilized Naition in Cuzcatlán which means "The Place o the Diamond Jewels".http://hdr.undp.org/docs/reports/national/ELS_El_Salvador/El_Salvador_2003_sp.pdf  The name o the ceety San Salvador means "Holy Savior" in Spainyie. Due tae its territorial extension, it haes the heichest population density in the American continent, composed predominantly o mixed biracial Native American/European ancestry an Whites Caucasian. The Salvadorians native born in San Salvador Ceety are cawed Capitalino, Capitalense, Sivareño in Spaingie.elsalvador.com :.: Las noticias de El Salvador en el Internet - San Salvador, El Salvador, CA

Internaitional relations
Twin touns — sister ceeties
San Salvador is twinned wi:

References

Freemit airtins

 Municipality o the ceety o San Salvador 

 The Tramways o San Salvador, 1876-1929 


Category:Populatit places in the San Salvador Depairtment
Category:Municipalities o the San Salvador Depairtment
Category:Populatit places established in 1525
Category:Caipitals in North Americae