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  Santa Ana, El Salvador
Santa Ana, El Salvador's highest volcano, is a massive, 2381-m-high andesitic-to-basaltic stratovolcano that rises immediately west of Coatepeque caldera.
West of the crater the morphology of volcano suggests the existence of an edifice collapse scar, that is believed to have produced an avalanche debris that covered approximately 200 km2 and formed the Acajutla peninsula to the south.
Williams, H., and H. Meyer-Abich, Volcanism in the Southern Part of El Salvador With Particular Reference to the Collapse basins of Lakes Coatepeque and Ilopang o, Univ. Calif.
volcano.und.edu /vwdocs/current_volcs/santaana/santa_ana.html   (598 words)

  
 CVO Menu - El Salvador Volcanoes and Volcanics
Santa Ana was particularly active during the late 1500's and again in the late 1800's.
El Picacho, the prominent peak of highest elevation (1,960 meters altitude) to the northeast of the crater, and El Jabali, the peak to the northwest of the crater, represent remnants of an older, larger edifice.
Santa Ana, El Salvador's highest volcano (2,365 meters), is a massive stratovolcano immediately west of Coatepeque caldera.
vulcan.wr.usgs.gov /Volcanoes/ElSalvador/description_el_salvador_volcanoes.html   (2082 words)

  
  El Salvador
El Salvador's countryside is simply gorgeous -- rippling with green hills, mountains and volcanoes, interspersed with circular mountain lakes of clear blue water shaped in rough circles from ancient craters of a volcanic past.
El Salvador has a reputation for crime and the guidebooks go out of their way to warn travelers to be careful.
El Salvador's gorgeous, green countryside and blue skies were certainly memorable, but the smiles and the people I met there were equally so.
home.earthlink.net /~mikedemana/el_sal.html   (2600 words)

  
 El Salvador (10/06)
El Salvador's early history as an independent state--as with others in Central America--was marked by frequent revolutions; not until the period 1900-30 was relative stability achieved.
El Salvador’s budget deficit, 3.2% percent of GDP in 2005, is usually financed through loans from the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, or Bank for Central American Integration as well as through the sale of government bonds in international financial markets.
El Salvador’s largest volcano, Santa Ana (also known by its indigenous name Ilamatepec), erupted in October 2005, spewing tons of sulfuric gas, ash, and rock on surrounding communities and coffee plantations and killing two people and permanently displaced 5,000.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2033.htm   (4027 words)

  
 Santa Ana, El Salvador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santa Ana is the second largest city in El Salvador, located 64 kilometers west of San Salvador, the capital city.
Santa Ana has approximately 274,830 (2006) inhabitants and serves both as the capital of the department of Santa Ana and as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name.
Currently, the mayor of Santa Ana, Orlando Mena, is from the FMLN or the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, the main left-wing political party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Ana,_El_Salvador   (163 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Santa Ana, city, El Salvador, El Salvador (Salvadoran Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Santa Ana, city, El Salvador, Salvadoran Political Geography
It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region.
Nearby rises Santa Ana volcano (7,828 ft/2,386 m), the highest in El Salvador.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SntAnaElS.html   (182 words)

  
 El Salvador -- Habitat for Humanity Int'l
Habitat for Humanity El Salvador began in 1992 in the Santa Ana department, where the first 29 houses were built.
El Salvador has been struck by two natural disasters that have increased housing needs, both in urban and rural areas.
El Salvador is still in the process of rebuilding.
www.habitat.org /intl/lac/62.aspx   (670 words)

  
 Santa Ana Volcano, El Salvador - Picture - MSN Encarta
Santa Ana Volcano, El Salvador - Picture - MSN Encarta
The Santa Ana Volcano in El Salvador has been the source of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
The 2,385-m (7,825-ft) mountain is the second-highest point in El Salvador.
encarta.msn.com /media_461513682_761574502_-1_1/Santa_Ana_Volcano_El_Salvador.html   (38 words)

  
 Image of the Day : Volcano in Red
The eruption was Santa Ana’s first since 1904 — though it has been active since June 2004 — and reportedly spat out hot ash and rocks careening down the volcano’s side, according to media reports.
Santa Ana, the large, flat-topped mound on the left, appears here in a false-color archive image taken by NASA’s Terra satellite well before the recent eruption.
Behind the Santa Ana volcano — which is the highest point in El Salvador at 7,812 feet (2,381 meters) — is a lake that fills the Coatepeque Caldera.
www.space.com /imageoftheday/image_of_day_051007.html   (260 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.
Santa Ana has a mall, restaurants, good paved roads and nice people you can talk to.
Many buses have stops in Santa Ana, and there is a large bus terminal in the city.
wikitravel.org /en/Santa_Ana_(El_Salvador)   (854 words)

  
 Three Volcanoes: Cerro Verde, Izalco and Santa Ana, El Salvador
These 3 volcanoes are located in the departments of Sonsonate and Santa Ana, and are approximately 67 kilometers from the capital city San Salvador.
The Izalco volcano is the youngest volcano in El Salvador.
Ilamatepec is the real name to the tallest volcano in El Salvador and located in the department of its same name: Santa Ana.
www.alfatravelguide.com /english/sv/three-volcanoes.asp   (623 words)

  
 El Salvador - Chalatenango Department, Cuscatlan Department, La Paz Department (El Salvador), San Salvador Department, ...
SAN SALVADOR, May 21 (IPS) - Eating less is the only option left to the poorest of the poor in El Salvador, in the face of the steady rise in global food prices, which has had an impact on the domestic cost of staples like rice, beans, tortillas, milk, eggs and bread.
In this case, a photography exhibition called Inside El Salvador and it can be seen at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
Taking a closer look at the impact of guerrilla action on female revolutionaries in El Salvador Dr. Jocelyn Viterna took a closer look at the glorification of women in combat as she presented research she has done to “set the record straight” on the consequences of participating in guerrilla...
www.newstin.com /us/el-salvador   (550 words)

  
 El Salvador volcano spits rock, hundreds evacuated
Authorities evacuated hundreds of people who live on the slopes of a volcano in western El Salvador Saturday, after it threw out large rocks and ash during an early morning explosion.
El Salvador's geological study centre said the volcano, which is known as both Santa Ana and as Ilamatepec, spat heavy rocks as far as a half a kilometre from its crater.
Santa Ana is El Salvador's largest and highest volcano.
www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2005/10/01/el_salvador20051001.html?ref=rss   (514 words)

  
 El Salvador pictures and videos Fotographs from El Salvador Photo Album
El Salvador, or San Salvador (Republica de El Salvador), the smallest but most densely peopled of the republics of Central America, bounded on the north and east by Honduras, south by the Pacific Ocean, and west by Guatemala.
El Salvador has a coastline extending for about 160 miles from the mouth of the Rio de la Paz to that of the Goascoran in the Bay of Fonseca.
Santa Ana is the country's second largest city and is considered to be one of El Salvador's most important architectural and cultural treasures.
www.murrasaca.com /Elsalvadorpictures.htm   (803 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | El Salvador volcano causes chaos
El Salvador's highest volcano, Ilamatepec, has erupted, killing two people and forcing thousands to flee the area.
Also known as the Santa Ana volcano, the volcano had lain dormant since 1904.
The President of El Salvador, Antonio Saca, has warned that a second eruption cannot be ruled out.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4301612.stm   (304 words)

  
 EO Newsroom: New Images - Santa Ana Volcano, El Salvador
El Salvador’s president warned of the possibility of a second eruption.
Volcanic activity is not unusual in El Salvador, which sits on the eastern edge of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
The Santa Ana volcano rises on the left side of the image, forming a large flat-topped mound.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17054   (562 words)

  
 ArchitectureWeek - Culture - Postcard from Santa Ana - 2005.0316
The earthquake-damaged Cathedral of Santa Ana, El Salvador.
City Hall, one of the oldest buildings in Santa Ana, was spared, but the other grand buildings surrounding the plaza were not as lucky.
The Cathedral of Santa Ana, the most imposing of the buildings dominating the square, is undergoing extensive restoration after suffering severe damage in the earthquake.
www.architectureweek.com /2005/0316/culture_1-1.html   (251 words)

  
 NationMaster - Statistics on El Salvador. 2773 facts and figures, stats and information on Salvadoran economy, crime, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
El Salvador achieved independence from Spain in 1821 and from the Central American Federation in 1839.
However, the main attractions of El Salvador is its wilderness, such as the Montecristo Cloud Forest and the Cerro Verde National Park, and sites of historical interest, such as the Mayan ruins of Tazumal.
The interior wording on the around the coat of arms is: Rebublica de El Salvador en la America Central which means, republic of El Salvador of Central America.
www.nationmaster.com /country/es-el-salvador   (397 words)

  
 Santa Ana (El Salvador): City Information
Santa Ana is a city that has open streets and a lavish National theater.
Sharp green hills surround the city, with the cones of Cerro Verde and Izalco and Santa Ana volcano further to the south.
Santa Ana has retained more of its colonial heritage than most cities this size, and it is therefore very pleasant.
www.spanishcourses.info /cities/46_santa_ana_EN.asp   (687 words)

  
 Santa Ana - Wikitravel
Santa Ana (Costa Rica) - A city in Costa Rica.
Santa Ana (El Salvador) - The second largest city in El Salvador.
Santa Ana (California) - A city in the Southern California region of the state of California.
wikitravel.org /en/Santa_Ana   (103 words)

  
 OCAVI - Observatorio Centroamericano sobre Violencia
El proyecto “Fortalecimiento de las capacidades institucionales para la prevención de la violencia armada” tiene por objetivo contribuir a reducir los niveles de violencia armada en El Salvador, y busca entre otros resultados el fortalecimiento de las capacidades institucionales para la prevención y reducción de la violencia con armas de fuego.
En este marco se creó en el municipio de Santa Ana un observatorio sobre violencia intrafamiliar, delincuencia y convivencia, con el propósito de contar con información sistemática, lo cual retroalimentará las acciones de prevención y control de estos fenómenos.
El evento se llevó a cabo en el marco del Plan Centroamerica Segura del Sistema de Integración Centroamericana (SICA) y da seguimiento al Primer Foro Centroamérica Segura, realizado en El Salvador en 2005.
www.ocavi.com   (880 words)

  
 Santa Ana, El Salvador. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
Self-possessed SANTA ANA, the second most important city in El Salvador, lies in a superb location in the Cihautehuacán valley.
Surrounded by green peaks, with the slope of Volcán Santa Ana rising to southwest, the gently decaying colonial streets exude a certain bourgeois complacency.
Santa Ana has a reasonable number of moderately priced places to eat; nightlife, however, is not high on the city's list of priorities, and most restaurants tend to shut around 10pm, even at the weekends.
www.hostelbookers.com /guides/el_salvador/santa_ana   (258 words)

  
 NASA - Santa Ana Volcano, El Salvador
The Santa Ana volcano rises on the left side of the image, forming a large flat-topped mound and sports several crescent-like craters at its summit and a 20-kilometer-long system of fissures.
Behind Santa Ana is a large caldera lake inside the Coatepeque Caldera, created when a series of volcanoes collapsed in explosive eruptions between 57,000 and 72,000 years ago.
In the foreground is El Salvador’s newest volcano, Izalco, which sprang up in 1770 and erupted frequently until 1966.
www.nasa.gov /multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_428.html   (283 words)

  
 Santa Ana, El Salvador, Pictures
Santa Ana, city in western El Salvador, capital of Santa Ana Department, near San Salvador.
The second largest city in El Salvador, Santa Ana is a processing and marketing center for coffee, sugar, and grain produced in the surrounding region.
The cathedral at Santa Ana is a fine example of Spanish colonial architecture.
www.greatestcities.com /Central_America/El_Salvador/Santa_Ana_city.html   (116 words)

  
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 Santa Ana Travel Info: Hotels, Restaurants, Vacations, Sightseeing: Professional Travel Guide
A pleasant place, Santa Ana is El Salvador's second-largest city.
Santa Ana Volcano towers over the town, and sugarcane and coffee are grown in the surrounding region.
The city has a striking neo-Gothic cathedral, a colonial church and the Teatro de Santa Ana (with an eclectic design that Paul Theroux described as "banana republic Greco-Roman").
professionaltravelguide.com /santa-ana/destinations-143582   (271 words)

  
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El ubicuo niño dijo "hola" cuando entré el colectivo, algo que es muy extraño.
I crossed over from Guatemala to El Salvador on 31 November and headed straight to a small little town called Tacuba.
But the people of El Salvador appear to be very friendly.
www.wearemappingyourdreams.com /andrew/ViewEntry.aspx?intLogId=2&intLogEntryId=553   (756 words)

  
 Santa Ana Volcano, El Salvador - John Seach
Santa Ana Volcano, El Salvador - John Seach
An increase in seismicity was recorded in September 2005.
Santa Ana volcano is located 30 miles west of San Salvador.
www.volcanolive.com /santaana.html   (44 words)

  
 Santa Ana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santa Ana is the Spanish-language name of Saint Anne, the mother of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
Santa Ana Pueblo, a Native American tribe in New Mexico
Santa Ana is also a variant spelling of the name of Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794-1876), a Mexican general and president who governed Mexico intermittently during the first half of the 19th century and who took part in the Texas Revolution.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Ana   (146 words)

  
 Santa Ana, El Salvador weather conditions and forecast : WorldTimeServer.com
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