Place:Sonsonate, El Salvador

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NameSonsonate
Alt namesSonsonatesource: Wikipedia
TypeDepartment
Coordinates13.7°N 89.7°W
Located inEl Salvador     (1855 - )
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Acajutla
Izalco
Nahuizalco
Sonsonate ( 1524 - )
Unknown
Armenia
Caluco
Cuisnahuat
El Sunza
Juayúa
Nahulingo
Salcoatitán
San Antonio del Monte
San Julián
Santa Catarina Masahuat
Santa Isabel Ishuatán
Santo Domingo de Guzmán
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Sonsonate is a department of El Salvador in the western part of the country. The capital is Sonsonate.

The department has a population of over 463,000 and an area of 1,226 km².

Created on June 12, 1824. The El Salvador National Parliament decided on January 29, 1859 to separate from the department the cities of Apaneca, San Pedro Puxtla, Guaymango and Jujutla and give these cities to Santa Ana Department.

Sonsonate City was the second capital of the Federal Republic of Central America in 1834.

The department remains the heart of the Pipil culture in the country, home to several ancient traditions and to most of the few remaining Nahuatl speakers in El Salvador.

It is an overwhelmingly agricultural area, with extremely fertile volcanic soils that once were the most valuable resource in Central America for the Spanish conquistadors who profited from its ancient cacao plantations. Its name appropriately means "Place of 400 rivers" or "Place of many waters" as it receives well over 2,000mm (79 inches) of rain a year.

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