San Salvador is an important financial hub of Central America.
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37 Facts About San Salvador
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San Salvador is located in the Salvadoran highlands, surrounded by volcanoes and prone to earthquakes.
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San Salvador has the second largest Jewish community in Central America and a small Muslim community.
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San Salvador has been the host city for various regional and international sporting, political, and social events.
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San Salvador was the host city of the 18th Ibero-American Summit in 2008, the most important sociopolitical event in the Spanish and Portuguese sphere.
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The Monumento a los Proceres de 1811, located in the Plaza Libertad, and the Teatro Nacional de El San Salvador were built in 1911 during Manuel Enrique Araujo's presidency.
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In 1917, an earthquake during an eruption of the nearby San Salvador volcano damaged the city, but it escaped additional damage because the lava flowed down the back side of the volcano.
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The 1986 San Salvador earthquake destroyed many government buildings and other important structures, injuring and killing hundreds.
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San Salvador's government is composed of various departments, including the departments of festivals, parks, cemeteries, and finance.
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San Salvador has a very hilly terrain; there are few parts of the municipality where the elevation is consistent.
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El San Salvador is the main exporter of these resins, which are still extracted manually.
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Population of San Salvador is predominantly Roman Catholic, with a significant minority of Protestants.
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San Salvador is rich in Spanish heritage, and its historical center contains architecture of a kind not found elsewhere in Latin America.
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San Salvador is home to the museum Museo de Arte de El Salvador, whose collection includes artworks dating from the mid-19th century to the contemporary era.
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The economy of San Salvador, Antiguo Cuscatlan, and Santa Tecla is a mixed one composed mainly of services, private education, banking, business headquartering, and industrial manufacturing.
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Under the Monetary Integration Law, El Salvador adopted the U S dollar as a legal tender alongside the colon.
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San Salvador's economy is mostly based on remittances, followed by service and retail sector, rather by industry or manufacturing.
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San Salvador is home to the great majority of corporations in the country, and supports many commercial activities, including food and beverage production; the pharmaceutical and chemical industries; the sale of automobiles, handicrafts, and construction materials; as well as appliance repair.
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San Salvador lacks a consolidated financial district; this is mainly due to the lack of urban planning that has plagued the city since the aftermath of the Salvadoran Civil War in 1992.
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World Trade Center San Salvador is located in District 3 at Avenida Norte and Calle del Mirador.
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The complex includes the Banco Azteca center, Stream Global Services representing Dell in Central America, The Israeli Embassy of San Salvador, Tigo, call centers, and other small offices and banks.
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San Salvador has small industrial zones scattered throughout the municipality, although most of them are concentrated in the eastern section near the border with Soyapango.
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San Salvador became part of the second largest brewer in the world, SABMiller, in 2005.
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San Salvador produces the Agua Cristal brand of bottled water, the best selling in El Salvador and in the Central American region.
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Expansion of San Salvador, while occurring in all directions, was primarily in the direction of the volcano of San Salvador.
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San Salvador has many museums, with the largest being the Museo Nacional de Antropologia de El Salvador and Museo de Arte de El Salvador .
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San Salvador has numerous private high schools, including Protestant and Catholic high schools, as well as secular ones; the city has numerous private bilingual schools.
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San Salvador is a major regional transportation hub, served by a comprehensive public transport network.
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San Salvador has excellent transportation connectivity, due to its extensive road network and its street maintenance system.
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Main highway passing through San Salvador is the CA-1, which at one point becomes Bulevar Arturo Castellanos.
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San Salvador Metropolitan Area Integrated System of Transportation is a proposed high-volume bus transportation system.
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Taxis in San Salvador are yellow, and the fleet is composed primarily of Toyota Corollas.
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The San Salvador volcano erupted again in 1917, resulting in three major earthquakes that damaged the city so extensively the government was forced to temporarily move the capital to the city of Santa Tecla .
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The 1986 San Salvador earthquake struck on 10 October 1986, causing considerable damage to the city and surrounding areas.
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The people of El San Salvador raised money for the homeless and international aid came from countries such as the United States, Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and the European Union.
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Movement restrictions in place for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in El San Salvador were temporarily lifted to allow people to purchase medicines, while hardware stores were allowed to open with limited capacity so people could purchase equipment for repairs.
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San Salvador recovered quickly after the cessation of hostilities, but gang violence became a problem.
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