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This article shows a list of cities in El Salvador .
City population figures below are from the World Population Review from 2024. [1] Over 100,000 or a High Human Development Index, and a high urbanization. AMSS = San Salvador Metropolitan Area
Over 50,000, medium to low urbanization, or departmental capital.
Within the range of 1,001 to 49,999 or have a really low urbanization.
El Salvador is a country in Central America. Situated at the meeting point of three tectonic plates, it is highly seismologically active and the location of numerous earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The country has a tropical climate.
This is a demography of the population of El Salvador including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
El Salvador is divided into 14 departments for administrative purposes, subdivided into 44 municipalities (municipios) and 262 districts. The country is a unitary state.
Cabañas is a department of El Salvador in the north central part of the country. Its capital is Sensuntepeque and it is one of coldest parts of El Salvador. Classified as a department in February 1873, it covers an area of 1,103.5 km2 (426.1 sq mi) and has over 164,900 inhabitants. The other major city of the department is Ilobasco. Agricultural produce includes coffee, sugar cane and sesame seeds, as well as dairy products. Gold, silver and copper are the principal minerals mined in the department. Its main industrial activity is oriented to manufacture of potteries, cheese, lime and distilleries.
Chalatenango is a department of El Salvador located in the northwest of the country. The department's capital city is the city of Chalatenango, which shares the same name as the department. Chalatenango covers a land area of 779 sq mi (2,017 km2) and contains over 192,000 inhabitants. Chalatenango's maximum elevation, located at Cerro El Pital, is 8,960 feet (2,730 m).
Usulután is a department of El Salvador in the southeast of the country. The capital is Usulután.
Jose Maria San Martín y Fugón was a Central American military officer and politician who served as president of El Salvador in 1852, and again from 1854 – 1852.
Berlin is a municipality in the Usulután Department, in El Salvador. The municipality is also one of the four capital districts of the department. It is located at the east of El Salvador, 112 kilometers from the capital city San Salvador. The municipality of Berlin is situated in the Tecapa-Chinameca-Alegrìa mountain zone, located in the central-north of Usulután.
Antiguo Cuscatlán(colloquially known as Antiguo) is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador; its eastern tip lies in the San Salvador Department part of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, southwest of San Salvador and southeast of Santa Tecla. The population was 47,956 at the 2020 census. Antiguo Cuscatlán can be translated as Old Jeweled City: Antiguo means ancient or old in Spanish, and Cuscatlán means jeweled city in Nahuat. The city used to be the capital of the Pipil or Cuzcatecs, before the Spanish conquest of the New World.
Cojutepeque is the capital city of El Salvador's Cuscatlán department. It also served as the capital of San Salvador during several years. It also serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of Cojutepeque. Its population is estimated at 70,000 people with about 85% living in the urban areas of the municipality.
Santa Tecla is a city and a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador. It is the capital of the department of La Libertad.
El Salvador – sovereign country located on the Pacific Coast of Central America. The area was originally called by the Pipil "Cuzcatan", in Spanish "Cuzcatlan", which in Nahuat means "The Land Of Precious Things". After the Spanish conquest, the land was divided into the province of San Salvador and the province of Izalcos ; until in 1824 the two jurisdictions were united in the State, now Republic, of El Salvador. The country borders the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras. With a population of approximately 5.8 million people, it is the most densely populated nation in Central America and is undergoing rapid industrialization.
The 1811 Independence Movement, known in El Salvador as the First Shout of Independence, was the first of a series of revolts in Central America in modern-day El Salvador against Spanish rule and dependency on the Captaincy General of Guatemala. The independence movement was led by prominent Salvadoran and Central American figures such as José Matías Delgado, Manuel José Arce, and Santiago José Celis.
El Salvador became independent from Spain in 1821. It has produced its own stamps since 1867.
The Primera División Femenina de El Salvador is the main women's football competition for in El Salvador. It was established in 2010.
The Liga Mayor de Baloncesto (LMB) is a men's professional basketball league in Americas, currently composed of 9 teams. It is the premier professional men's basketball league in El Salvador. It is the top level of the El Salvador basketball league system. The league is controlled by the El Salvador Basketball Federation.
Presidential elections were held in El Salvador in January 1895. General Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez, who was serving as the country's provisional president during the election, ran unopposed and was elected with over 99 percent of the vote. Concurrent vice presidential elections were held, during which, Prudencio Alfaro defeated Carlos Meléndez and four minor candidates.
The 2023–24 season will be El Salvador's Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño. The season will be split into two championships Apertura 2023 and Clausura 2024. The champions of the Apertura and Clausura play the direct promotion playoff every year. The winner of that series ascends to Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador.
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