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- ↑ Lardé, Jorge (1960). Obras completas (in Spanish). Ministerio de Cultura, Departamento Editorial. p. 480.
- ↑ Servicio Geológico Nacional. "Estadística de Registros. Cronología de sismos destructivos en El Salvador" (in Spanish). Servicio Nacional de Estudios Territoriales (SNET). Retrieved 19 May 2015.
- ↑ El Salvador. Departamento de Relaciones Públicas, Casa Presidencial. 1971. p. 15.
- ↑ Markman, Sidney David (1995). Architecture and Urbanization of Colonial Central America. Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University. ISBN 978-0-87918-080-5.
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