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  2. Salvadoran Spanish - Wikipedia

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    Salvadoran Spanish is geographically defined as the form of Spanish spoken in the country of El Salvador. The Spanish dialect in El Salvador shares many similarities to that of its neighbors in the region, but it has its stark differences in pronunciation and usage. El Salvador, like most of Central America, uses voseo Spanish as its written ...

  3. Atlácatl - Wikipedia

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    Atlácatl ( Nahuatl Ātlācatl: ātl "water", tlācatl "human being"; died c. 1528) is reputed to have been the name of the last ruler of an Indigenous state based around the city of Cuzcatlan, in the southeastern periphery of Mesoamerica (present-day El Salvador ), at the time of the Spanish conquest. Atlácatl appears to have been a myth ...

  4. Departments of El Salvador - Wikipedia

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    Largest: San Salvador (1,740,847) Smallest: Cabañas (164,945) Areas. Largest: Usulután (2,130.4 km 2) Smallest: Cuscatlán (756.2 km 2) Subdivisions. Municipality. El Salvador is divided into 14 departments (Spanish: departamentos) for administrative purposes, subdivided into 44 municipalities ( municipios) and 262 districts. The country is a ...

  5. Atlácatl Battalion - Wikipedia

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    The battalion was named after Atlácatl, a legendary indigenous figure from the Spanish conquest of El Salvador who fought against conquistador Pedro de Alvarado. [6] The United States sent fifteen counter-insurgent specialists to El Salvador in March 1981 to train the newly formed battalion. [6] Weapons, ground vehicles, and helicopters were ...

  6. Religion in El Salvador - Wikipedia

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    Religion in El Salvador (2022 estimate) [1] Catholicism (41.9%) Protestantism (35.9%) Other Christian (1.7%) No religion (19.9%) Others (0.6%) St. Anne's Cathedral in Santa Ana. Christianity is the predominant religion in El Salvador, [2] with Catholicism and Protestantism being its main denominations. The Catholic share of the population is on ...

  7. Central American Spanish - Wikipedia

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    Central American Spanish ( Spanish: español centroamericano or castellano centroamericano) is the general name of the Spanish language dialects spoken in Central America. More precisely, the term refers to the Spanish language as spoken in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Panamanian Spanish is considered a variety ...

  8. Salvadoran Americans - Wikipedia

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    Salvadoreños por el Mundo - Noticias de El Salvador - Noticias de El Salvador. In 2020, Ricky Hurtado was elected to North Carolina General Assembly as a House Representative. He represents the North Carolina's 63rd District. He became the first Hispanic Democrat to serve in the General Assembly. He was sworn on January 1, 2021.

  9. Monument to the Reconciliation - Wikipedia

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    The Monument to the Reconciliation ( Spanish: Monumento a la Reconciliación) was a monument which existed in El Salvador from 2017 until its demolition in 2024. The monument, which was designed by sculptor Napoleón Alberto Escoto, commemorated the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords which ended the Salvadoran ...