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  San Salvador Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SV-SS San Salvador is a department of El Salvador in the west central part of the country.
It was made department on June 12, 1824.
During the time of the colony, the department was the San Salvador Party, from where it was taken territory to make the departments of Chalatenago, La Libertad, Cuscatlan and La Paz.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Salvador_Department   (180 words)

  
 San Salvador, El Salvador  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
San Salvador, city, capital of El Salvador and its San Salvador Department, on the Ace Chaute River, in the central part of the country.
San Salvador is the site of the University of El Salvador (1841); the José Simeón Cañas Central American University (1965); the Dr. José Matías Delgado University (1977); colleges of music, social work, and agriculture; the National Library; and the National General Archive, housed in the National Palace.
San Salvador served as the capital of the United Provinces of Central America during the 1830s and has been the capital of El Salvador since 1841, except for the period from 1854 to 1859, when it was rebuilt after suffering great devastation during an earthquake.
www.galenfrysinger.com /san_salvador_el_salvador.htm   (344 words)

  
 San Salvador travel guide - Wikitravel
San Salvador [1] is the capital city of El Salvador, located approximately in the center of the country in a valley near the base of the San Salvador volcano.
San Salvador lies in the "Valle de las Hamacas" (literally "Valley of the Hammocks", as it was called by the Pipil, due to its intense seismic activity) at the foot of the San Salvador volcano.
San Salvador's climate is tropical, although the weather can vary; the nights may be cool (especially in December), however, most of the time it is sunny and warm.
wikitravel.org /en/San_Salvador   (3461 words)

  
 San Salvador News
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador The bodies soaking the pavement with blood stirred memories of this country's violent past, still vivid in the minds of many.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador An El Salvador Army captain was killed and four soldiers were wounded Friday when their convoy hit an explosive device in Iraq's Wasit province, the country's defense department...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador Salvadoran President Tony Saca said Sunday that a Cuban man with alleged drug-trafficking ties plotted to assassinate him by attacking his helicopter with a shoulder-fired missile.
www.topix.net /sv/san-salvador   (659 words)

  
 1993 Human Rights Report: EL SALVADOR
At the end of the year, the new PNC was deployed in 7 of El Salvador's 14 departments, as well as in parts of the capital.
On February 21, Freddy Fernando Torres Portillo, an FMLN municipal leader, was found dead in San Salvador from a gunshot wound to the head.
The San Miguel appeals court upheld that decision, but both rulings were appealed to the Supreme Court on the grounds that the crimes were common crimes not covered by the amnesty law.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/democracy/1993_hrp_report/93hrp_report_ara/ElSalvador.html   (8988 words)

  
 San Salvador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
San Salvador is also the overall transportation and economic hub of the nation, since it is home to one third of the population and one half of the country's wealth.
San Salvador is a large city whose population is starkly divided between the wealthy and impoverished.
During the 1980s, conflicts in El Salvador erupted into a civil war, and many people fled to the city since most of the fighting occurred outside of it (San Salvador itself was not directly affected by the war until the final offensive of 1989).
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/San_Salvador   (1174 words)

  
 San Salvador, San Salvador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
San Salvador, happens to be the second capital of El Salvador, as it had originally been found at a place that was destructed by earthquakes.
San Salvador is a multi-cultural city, filled with enthusiastic enterprenurial people, who are always at the ready to welcome tourists and nationals living abroad.
San Salvador has suffered floods, earthquakes, civil war, an erupting volcano and various other disasters, but its people always stand up to the task and do what it's needed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Salvador,_San_Salvador   (220 words)

  
 Book Review
There is a detailed discussion of how San Salvador was affected by the Mexican War, Anglo American immigration, and the economic transformation of the San Bernardino Valley.
Although San Salvador no longer exists, Vickery finds that their culture has continued in the values of the present day population.
It is hard to believe that the San Salvador settlers were unaware of what was happening to the Spanish speaking in Southern California and the Southwest during this period.
www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/78spring/br-eden.htm   (483 words)

  
 El Salvador: Killings of women in El Salvador: Appeal Cases - Amnesty International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The body of 17-year-old Marian Isabela Rivas Martínez was found on 4 December 2002 in San Bartolo, municipality of Soyapango, San Salvador department.
It is Amnesty International’s view that most of these cases have not been thoroughly investigated, and that El Salvador is failing in its duty to exercise due diligence by preventing, investigating, prosecuting and punishing sexual and gender-based violence, whether perpetrated by state officials or non-state actors.
Her decapitated head was found on 9 December in a rucksack in the Libertad Park, in San Salvador.
web.amnesty.org /library/index/ENGAMR290052005   (1017 words)

  
 SSHL: Latin American Election Statistics: El Salvador elections and events 1970-1972   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
El Salvador, año político 1971-72 1973: Gives number of voters registered for the election (1,119,699) and explains that this number is 300,000 less than the number registered in 1970 because all eligible citizens had to re-register to vote in the 1972 election (page 53).
El Salvador 1982 1982: "(T)he PCN-controlled Consejo Central de Elecciones (CCE) disqualified the UNO assembly slate for San Salvador, the largest department and the one in which UNO had greatest support, and at least three other departments" (page 30).
Gives by department the total votes for congress and for mayoralties won by the four parties, the null votes and abstentions in congressional and mayoral elections, and the registered voters.
dodgson.ucsd.edu /las/elsal/1970-1972.html   (2170 words)

  
 San Salvador - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
San Salvador - Search Results - MSN Encarta
San Salvador (island), island, Bahamas, in the Atlantic Ocean, near Cat Island.
Nueva San Salvador, formerly Santa Tecla, city in central El Salvador, capital of La Libertad Department, at the southern foot of San Salvador...
encarta.msn.com /San+Salvador.html   (158 words)

  
 San Miguel Department (El Salvador) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SV-SM San Miguel is a department of El Salvador in the eastern part of the country.
San Miguel was first known as San Miguel of the Border, the city being founded by Luis de Mocoso on May 8, 1530 where is now Santa Elena.This territory was part of the Lenca Principality at the time of the conquest.
On July 11, 1812 it was given the title of "Noble y Leal Ciudad" (noble and loyal city).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Miguel_Department_(El_Salvador)   (144 words)

  
 San Salvador (city) -- Encarta® Concise Encyclopedia Article (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
San Salvador (city), capital city of El Salvador.
San Salvador is the country's largest city and its main commercial, manufacturing, transportation, and cultural center.
San Salvador served as the capital of the United Provinces of Central America during the 1830s and has been the capital of El Salvador since 1841.
content.class.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ewew_content/amlit1b/97webcache/0101america.dir/0260e000.htm   (177 words)

  
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mexico - navy: chief of the department of navy (1912-1941)
el salvador - historical flags (1865 - 1912)
nueva san salvador (la libertad, el salvador)
www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/keyworde.html   (2079 words)

  
 Global Volcanism Program | San Salvador | Summary
The massive compound San Salvador volcano dominates the landscape west of El Salvador's capital city of San Salvador.
The dominantly andesitic Boquerón stratovolcano has grown within a 6-km-wide caldera, whose rim is partially exposed at Picacho and Jabalí peaks, that formed by collapse of an older San Salvador volcano about 40,000 years ago.
Three fracture zones that extend beyond the base of San Salvador volcano have been the locus for numerous flank eruptions, including two that formed maars on the WNW and SE sides.
www.volcano.si.edu /world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1403-05=   (225 words)

  
 Project El Salvador
Project El Salvador is a University of Denver International Service Learning Program that combines service work with academic study in El Salvador during the winter interterm.
The program will be based in San Salvador, with opportunities to explore and understand life in smaller, rural communities.
Project El Salvador 2006 will be open to all undergraduate and graduate students regardless of their prior travel, academic or work experience.
www.du.edu /intl/isl/elsalvador.html   (727 words)

  
 Reports, International Education Week 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The embassy sponsored the first ever "U.S. Education Fair" at the University of the East (UNIVO) in San Miguel to provide students with information on international exchange programs and the U.S. educational system.
Since UNIVO is located three hours from San Salvador, most students find it difficult to seek advice for study abroad.
UNIVO's rector opened the four-hour event, which was attended by 200 students, by reminding the participants of the importance of international education and encouraging the students to seek out opportunities for study abroad.
exchanges.state.gov /iew2001/reports/embassy-sansalvador.htm   (124 words)

  
 San José State University Police Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The San José State University Police Department is a full-service law enforcement agency employing police officers whose law enforcement authority is granted under Section 830.2 of the California Penal Code.
(b) A member of the University of California Police Department appointed pursuant to Section 92600 of the Education Code, provided that the primary duty of the peace officer shall be the enforcement of the law within the area specified in Section 92600 of the Education Code.
(c) A member of the California State University Police Departments appointed pursuant to Section 89560 of the Education Code, provided that the primary duty of the peace officer shall be the enforcement of the law within the area specified in Section 89560 of the Education Code.
www.sjsu.edu /police/pages/resources/faq.html   (1144 words)

  
 El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980-1994
The collection brings together a wealth of primary source materials, tracing the human rights catastrophe that gripped El Salvador throughout its terrible civil conflict, and providing a comprehensive record of the decisions behind U.S. policy in the country and the region during the final decade of the Cold War.
Included are documents charting Washington's policy toward revolutionary upheaval in Central America, U.S. efforts to influence El Salvador's political arena, the debate within Congress over supporting the Salvadoran government during the war, and the role and impact of non-governmental organizations in influencing policy.
Although documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act are included in the El Salvador collection, the majority of material was declassified by executive order in 1993 and 1994.
www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/elsalvador2   (1710 words)

  
 Amnesty International 1998 Annual Report on El Salvador (the Republic of)
In July the UN Verification Office (ONUV) in El Salvador, the last UN body overseeing the implementation of the peace process, was closed.
In October 1997 the First Criminal Court of San Miguel ruled that there was evidence of a plan to kill Francisco Manzanares, that he had been under surveillance and that the killing had been political.
In October organizers of an event in San Miguel to commemorate the first anniversary of the killing of Francisco Manzanares were allegedly followed and placed under surveillance by members of the PNC.
www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar98/amr29.htm   (1246 words)

  
 San Salvador 1972 Topographic Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Portion of the 1972 San Salvador Topographic Map
Used in compiling the San Salavador Island GIS Database
Map produced by Department of Land and Surveys, 1972
www.newhaven.edu /sansalvador/gis/ImageTopoMap.htm   (26 words)

  
 Press Releases - Embassy of the United States in El Salvador
Mark Silverman, Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development in El Salvador, Miguel Angel Simán, Presidential Commissioner for Public Investment and President of FISDL, and Roque Cordova, Mayor of San Sebastian participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for a new municipal market in San Sebastian.
The total cost of the project is $1.9 million, of which $1.3 million was donated by USAID and the rest by the city of San Sebastian and the Government of El Salvador.
Of this amount, $3.5 million was devoted to rebuilding three markets in San Vicente Department (San Vicente, Tecoluca, and San Sebastian) and two markets in Usulután Department (Puerto El Triunfo and Santiago de Maria).
sansalvador.usembassy.gov /news/2004/04/040104.html   (212 words)

  
 Sustainer letter February 2006
On October 10, 2005, 300 residents from Guarjila, San Jose Las Flores and Nueva Trinidad joined together and formed a human chain to block representatives from Canadian mining company Au Martinique Silver from entering their communities in the Department of Chalatenango.
Carrying signs and chanting about the importance of the environment and their communities, they participated in the first formal protest of the prospective mining operation that threatens to further exploit El Salvador ’s natural resources and endanger the health of thousands of Salvadorans.
SHARE recently learned of mining projects also proposed for the La Union department and that these same two Canadian companies exploring Chalatenango are breaking ground in El Paisnal, in the Northern San Salvador department where the UCRES sistering partnership region is located.
www.share-elsalvador.org /letters/index.htm   (792 words)

  
 Gray Line Tours El Salvador - Truly, the local expert .::San Salvador City Explorer::. (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The tour will start at 12:00 noon making the departure from San Salvador city.
We will drive through the streets and avenues of the city until we arrive to Santa Elena; a beautiful residential area where we will have lunch at the restaurant El Cantaro.
We will continue our tour through La Zona Rosa where you will be able to find everything to satisfy your night life; Paseo General Escalon, until we arrive to the monument of the Divino Salvador del Mundo, placed in Plaza Las Americas.
www.graylineelsalvador.com.cob-web.org:8888 /packages/half-day-001.html   (218 words)

  
 Mejicanos - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Mejicanos, town in south central El Salvador, in San Salvador Department.
San Salvador, the capital and largest city of El Salvador, has a population of 485,847 (2001 estimate).
Help with Spanish, French, German, and Italian homework.
au.encarta.msn.com /Mejicanos.html   (45 words)

  
 Image:Flag of El Salvador.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flag of El Salvador drawn by User:Vzb83 with coat of arms obtained from [http
This file has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
San Salvador F.C. Template:Primera División de Fútbol Profesional
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Image:Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg   (321 words)

  
 Dickinson Geology
Departments of Envirtonmental Studies and Geology, Dickinson College
Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Geosciences, Towson University
Comments and suggestions should be sent to the Geology Department webmaster.
alpha.dickinson.edu /departments/geol/sem_sp03.html   (178 words)

  
 Santa Ana travel guide - Wikitravel
Santa Ana is the second largest city of El Salvador and a very important one in terms of agriculture, coffee production and more.
Most buses headed towards San Salvador from Guatemala City stop along 25 Calle Poniente in Santa Ana.
Four bus lines headed from Guatemala stop through Santa Ana on their way to San Salvador: Tica, Galgos, Melva, and Pezzarossi.
wikitravel.org /en/Santa_Ana_(El_Salvador)   (728 words)

  
 ILEA Latin America
The Department of State has begun negotiations with the government of El Salvador to establish the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) for Latin America in San Salvador.
The Department also intends to explore with the government of Peru the possibility of establishing an associate ILEA facility in Lima.
The host country will provide suitable facilities for the center to include classroom and dormitory space, as well as professional, administrative, financial and facilitative support for the Academy, its instructors and students.
www.state.gov /p/inl/ilea/c11286.htm   (315 words)

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