Information About El Salvador
Written by: Loic Markus
Background Information
- The capital of El Salvador is San Salvador.
- El Salvador has other major cities/high populated cities with awesome open markets which are Soyapango, Santa Ana, San Miguel, and Mejicanos.
- El Salvador used to be controlled by Spain.
- In 1821, El Salvador gained its independence and is still its own country.
- The official language of El Salvador is Spanish.
- The Mayans an ancient civilization used to live where El Salvador is located.
- It was the Spanish who founded El Salvador.
- The flag of El Salvador is on the right.
Flag of El Salvador
- Has blue and white stripes going in a horizontal direction.
- Pyramid like figure in the middle of the flag.
- Surrounded by the words Republica De El Salvador En La America Central
- All the colors in total are blue, white, yellow, green, red.
Geographical Information
- The general location of El Salvador is Central America.
- It borders the North Pacific Ocean and is between the countries of Guatemala and Honduras.
- Physical features of El Salvador include mountains, narrow coastal belt, central plateaus, and volcanoes.
- Natural resources located in El Salvador are hydrogen power, geothermal power, petroleum, arable land.
Political Information
- El Salvador has a government which is called a presidential representative democratic republic.
- The current president of El Salvador is Sanchez Ceren.
- Petroleum is a good resource for making money and trade deals.
Economic Information
The current currency of El Salvador is the U.S dollar bill. The economic system of El Salvador is Capitalism.
Tourist Information
- El Salvador is a country which gained independence from Spain in a 12 year civil war.
- El Salvador has beautiful landscape and is one of the smallest countries in Central America so tourists can cover lots of the country in a short amount of time.
- Tourists could go see volcanoes, lakes, beautiful nature, beautiful green forests, waterfalls, churches, culture, and beaches.
- Tourists could go surfing, explore markets, learn history of the ancient civilizations and see the ruins, zip lining, and fishing.
- However, as a warning, there is a lot of poverty in some areas of El Salvador and you risk getting stuff stolen.