Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: El Salvador colon


Related Topics

In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
  El Salvador - Search View - MSN Encarta
El Salvador, republic in north-eastern Central America, bounded on the north and east by Honduras, on the extreme south-east by the Gulf of Fonseca, on the south by the Pacific Ocean, and on the west and north-west by Guatemala.
The climate of the coastal strip is tropical; that of the plateau and highlands is semi-tropical and temperate; the mountain regions have a temperate climate.
El Salvador gained independence on January 1, 1841, after the break-up of the federation; during the remainder of the 19th century the history of El Salvador was a turbulent one.
uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761557648__1/El_Salvador.html   (3370 words)

  
 El Salvador
El Salvador was initially a member of the Centalamerican Federation, and used its flag.
The flag of the Centalamerican Federation is a blue-white-blue horizontal striped flag with a coat of arms in the middle of the white stripe.
The coat of arms of El Salvador is nearly the same like the coat of arms of the Centalamerican Federation.
www.flaggenlexikon.de /felsalva.htm   (709 words)

  
 CHARLES BRAY's El Salvado Journal
El Salvador is the most densely populated country in Central America, with 256 people per km [662 per sq mile], and so one of its main exports is people.
El Salvador is the world’s leading producer of balsam gum, which is used in patent medicines and perfumes; timber is a minor export.
In August 13th 1999, Police in El Salvador say that a former paramilitary fighter was shot and killed during violent protests in the north-west of the country on Thursday.
www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/Central_America/El_Salvador   (3879 words)

  
 El Salvador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
El Salvador's civilization dates back to the pre-Columbian epoch, some 1500 years B.C. as it has been evidenced by the relics found in the Tazumal ruins of Chalchuapa.
El Salvador is also the only producer of balsam used for the manufacturing of medicine and cosmetics.
El Tazumal is El Salvador's most significant Mayan ceremonial center, featuring a step pyramid, ball courts (a game in which the losing team or its captain was sacrificed) and temples; it was built between the fifth and ninth centuries.
www.colivu.com /ElSalvador.htm   (1479 words)

  
 El Salvador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
El Salvador is located in the South-East part of the Central American isthmus, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean and it is unique in that it is the only country in that region that does not have shores on the Caribbean Sea.
El Salvador is a sovereign, republican and democratic representative country.
El Salvador is a tropical land of rugged mountains, cone-shaped volcanoes, green valleys, and scenic lakes.
www.imagiverse.org /resources/world/elsalvador/el_salvador2.htm   (484 words)

  
 Central America | El Salvador
EL SALVADOR is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere, with low per capita income, chronic inflation, and high unemployment.
Prior to the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century, El Salvador was inhabited by several Native American tribes.
El Salvador gained independence in 1841; during the remainder of the 19th century its history was turbulent, with much conflict.
www.math.dartmouth.edu /~lamperti/centralamerica_elsalvador.html   (693 words)

  
 Passport Express
Registration Embassy and Consulate: Americans living in or visiting El Salvador are encouraged to register at the Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in the capital city, San Salvador, and obtain updated information on travel and security in El Salvador and neighboring countries.
The dengue virus is a significant public health concern in El Salvador, as the rate of infection increased from 1.6 per 100,000 in 1999 to 33 per 100,000 in 2000.
Americans living in or visiting El Salvador are encouraged to register at the Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in the capital city, San Salvador, and obtain updated information on travel and security in El Salvador and neighboring countries.
www.passportexpress.com /default.aspx?page=show_visa&action=El_Salvador   (1819 words)

  
 El Salvador Travel Directory
All visas may be renewed at the Office of Immigration in El Salvador.
El Salvador, at an altitude of 680 m.
The government of El Salvador is divided into Executive, Legislative branches and the Supreme Court.
www.tuttinsieme.it /tutti/tut/cename/elsalvador/eldir.htm   (354 words)

  
 El Salvador - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It is bound by Honduras to the north, Guatemala to the northwest, the Gulf of Fonseca to the southeast and the Pacific Ocean to the south.
El Salvador is located in a very unstable geological zone and is subject to frequent earthquakes.
In the same year El Salvador and Honduras signed an agreement to end their border dispute and in Jan. 1981 a civil war erupted between government troops and leftist rebel guerrilla forces.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/elsalvad.htm   (1378 words)

  
 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ El Salvador / Glossary
El Salvador's monetary unit, divided into 100 centavos.
The colon was pegged by the government at US$1=C2.50 until November 1986, when it was officially devalued to US$1=C5 as part of an overall economic austerity package.
El Salvador's fiscal year is the calendar year.
lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/el_salvador/sv_glos.html   (967 words)

  
 El Salvadorian Colon, SVC, Information on the Currency of El Salvador
The colon had been produced in 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 and 200 colones, but is no longer being printed in an effort to eventually make the dollar the only currency circulating in El Salvador.
Preceding the colon was the peso, which was a decimalized currency, but the colon replaced it in 1892.
The central bank of El Salvador is Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador; the bank is run by a directive board led by the President of the bank, Luz Maria S. de Potillo.
www.gocurrency.com /countries/el_salvador.htm   (632 words)

  
 El Salvador
El Salvador is a constitutional, multiparty democracy with an executive branch headed by a president and a unicameral legislature.
The minimum daily wage is $4.80 (42 colones) for commercial, industrial, construction, and service employees; $2.47 (22 colones) for agricultural workers; and $3.57 (31 colones) for seasonal agriculture industry workers.
The majority of trafficked victims transiting El Salvador are from Nicaragua, Honduras, and South America.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/wha/8354.htm   (12173 words)

  
 El Salvador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
El Salvador is known as the Land of Volcanoes although there has not been an eruption in over 85 years.
El Salvador is also extremely susceptible to hurricanes.
El Salvador has a major problem with soil erosion due to deforestation.
www.personal.psu.edu /users/m/j/mjr314/ElSalvador.htm   (680 words)

  
 El Salvador
El Salvador was invited by the Community of Democracies' (CD) Convening Group to attend the November 2002 second CD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, as a participant.
The Attorney General alleged that judge Alicia Gonzalez de Ortiz of Lourdes Colon allowed a defendant in a rape case to go free after he admitted guilt and paid a fine; the law does not allow the use of this "abbreviated procedure" in rape cases.
In 2001 Guatemalan authorities reported that street children from El Salvador were lured to border areas with Guatemala where they are then forced into prostitution by organized rings.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18331.htm   (15436 words)

  
 globalEDGE (TM) | country insights - Economy of El Salvador   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
One of the biggest challenges in El Salvador has been to manage the decline in the coffee sector, formerly the backbone of the economy, and to develop new growth sectors for a more diversified economy.
El Salvador has sought to leverage these assets in creating new export industries through fiscal incentives for free trade zones, and currently there are 15 free trade zones in El Salvador.
El Salvador ratified the agreement in December 2004, the first nation in Central America to do so.
globaledge.msu.edu /IBRD/CountryEconomy.asp?CountryID=124&RegionID=4   (569 words)

  
 El Salvador
El Salvador, with the other countries of Central America, declared its independence from Spain on Sept. 15, 1821, and was part of a federation of Central American states until that union dissolved in 1838.
From 1931 to 1979 El Salvador was ruled by a series of military dictatorships.
El Salvador - El Salvador, officially Republic of El Salvador, republic (2005 est.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107489.html   (728 words)

  
 Yahoo - El Salvador gov't weighs dollarization -minister
SAN SALVADOR, March 15 (Reuters) - El Salvador's government is studying whether to join Ecuador in swapping its own currency and officially adopting the U.S. dollar, the nation's finance minister said on Wednesday.
El Salvador's government has remained tight-lipped on the subject of dollarization since President Francisco Flores of the National Republican Alliance (ARENA) party assumed power in June 1999.
Many have speculated that El Salvador would be the next country to abandon its currency in favor of the greenback.
www.ecuadornumismatics.com /numisphily/dollarization/Yahoo/00-03-15_weighs.html   (509 words)

  
 Colonoscopy, Atlas, Colon, Rectum.
The colon and rectum cancer are one of the most frequent and according to statistics, keeps growing, regardless of gender, but it is still the most preventive.
It is “absolutely recommended”, as a way of prevention, the practice of the colonoscopy with patients in risk of developing a colon cancer, moreover in family patients that have had a tumor in first degree, or in those having diseases related to a major incidence of this type of cancer.
The patient is mildly sedated, the endoscope is inserted through the anus and moved gently around the bends of the colon.
www.murrasaca.com /colonoscopy.htm   (1462 words)

  
 El Salvador
Although the dollar and Colon are legal tender in El Salvador, in practice the Colon has fallen out of use, and Americans traveling with U.S. dollars should not exchange them for Colones.
Since the National Passport Center in New Hampshire, and not the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador, prints U.S. passports, citizens submitting applications in El Salvador should be prepared to wait approximately one week for receipt of their new passports.
The U.S. Embassy in El Salvador reminds U.S. citizen travelers that their activities in El Salvador are limited to those prescribed by Salvadoran law and the type of visa they are issued.
travel.state.gov /travel/elsalvador.html   (3382 words)

  
 El Salvador - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Elena María de Alfaro, Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of El Salvador and representing the Exporting Sector.
The growth of the external sector is indispensable for the sustained growth of the economy, creating uses you that they are translated in the base for the sustainable increment of the consumption and the investment and, therefore, in more economic activity in sectors like the trade and the construction.
The favorable perspectives for the international trade and investment, are based on three concrete facts: the agreement of Integration Trinacional (Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador), the signature of the Treaty of the Free Trade with Mexico and the approval of the benefits of the the Caribbean Basin Initiative (ICC).
www.elsalvadortrade.com.sv /i_html/noticias.html   (802 words)

  
 Normal Colon, EL SALVADOR ATLAS of Gastrointestinal VideoEndoscopy
ascending colon to hepatic angle and transverse colon.
the colon, which is otherwise known as the cecum.
colon which increases the sensitivity of the procedure in
www.gastrointestinalatlas.com /English/Colon_and_Rectum/Normal_Colon/normal_colon_.html   (525 words)

  
 El Salvador Phone Cards Rates
Calling El Salvador from 8.9 c/min on Nobelcom phonecards.
Call El Salvador using any of the 6 SpeedyPin calling cards with rates starting at 6.7 c/min to landline and 7.0 c/min to cellular phone in El Salvador.
Great rates on Cloncom phonecards to El Salvador start at 7.7 c/min.
www.ampolbiz.com /elsalvador.htm   (169 words)

  
 El Salvador Economy - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
Even so, El Salvador has experienced sizable deficits in both its trade and its fiscal accounts.
El Salvador sustained damage from Hurricane Mitch, but not as much as other Central American countries.
Inflation and the trade deficit are expected to rise somewhat as a result.
www.photius.com /wfb1999/el_salvador/el_salvador_economy.html   (270 words)

  
 El Salvador/Planeta.com
A resourceful company in El Salvador called NOBS Hidrofusion recently received $50,000 to help develop an innovative product that's both environmentally friendly and economically promising.
NOBS promotes vetiver cultivation throughout El Salvador, where some 140 metric tons of the country's soil are lost each year to erosion, caused by deforestation for agriculture and development.
Miranda explains that vetiver's roots are "abundant and strong and can grow some four meters deep, in a direct line, so they retain the soil." The grass doesn't compete with other crops since it is propagated by rhizomes, not by seed.
www.planeta.com /planeta/97/0597salvador.html   (417 words)

  
 Convert El Salvador Colones (SVC) and New Taiwan Dollars (TWD): Currency Exchange Rate Conversion Calculator
Rate table - See a chart of currency rates between El Salvador Colones and New Taiwan Dollars.
RSS Feed - The New Taiwan Dollars and El Salvador Colones exchange rate delivered to your personal home page.
The El Salvador Colon is divided into 100 centavos.
coinmill.com /SVC_TWD.html   (436 words)

  
 Guardian International Currency El Salvador Colon
Colones can still be used, but are not reissued by banks.
The El Salvador Colon has been replaced by the United States Dollar as the official currency.
The Colon was set at an exchange rate of 8.75 Colon per US Dollar.
www.guardianfx.com /information/south_america/elsalvador.html   (77 words)

  
 Calculator for El Salvador Colon (SVC) Currency Exchange Rate Conversion
El Salvador Colon (SVC) Currency Exchange Rate Conversion Calculator
Enter the amount to be converted in the box to the left of the currency and press the "convert" button.
To show El Salvador Colon and just one other currency click on any other currency.
coinmill.com /SVC_calculator.html   (386 words)

  
 About El Salvador - Travel, Maps, Flag and Information
The Republic of El Salvador (Spanish for "The Savior"), which was known prehispanically as Cuscatlán, is a country in Central America with a population of approximately 6.7 million people.
It is the most densely populated nation on the American mainland (especially in its capital, San Salvador).
Writers Francisco Gavidia (1863–1955) and Manlio Argueta, and poet Roque Dalton are among the most important artists to stem from El Salvador.
www.canadiancontent.net /profiles/El-Salvador.html   (243 words)

  
 El Salvador
El Salvador - Salvador, El: see El Salvador.
El Salvador - El Salvador Profile: People, History, Government and Political Conditions, Economy, Foreign Relations, U.S.-Salvadoran Relations
El Salvador: Bibliography - Bibliography See T. Anderson, Matanza: El Salvador's Communist Revolt of 1932 (1971); D. Link to Fact Monster
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107489.html   (687 words)

  
 WebWire® | Wärtsilä 50 MW turnkey power plant for Salvador utility   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
CEL is the national utility in El Salvador and it’s owned by the Government of El Salvador.
CEL used to be the vertically integrated national utility until 1999 and 2000 when the Government of El Salvador sold the distribution company, thermal, and geothermal generators.
This is achieved by the dedication of more than 12,000 professionals manning 130 Wärtsilä offices in over 60 countries around the world.
webwire.com /ViewPressRel.asp?SESSIONID=&aId=9950   (461 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.