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San Salvador Island, previously Watling's Island, is an island and district of the Bahamas, famed for being the probable location of Christopher Columbus 's first landing of the Americas on 12 October 1492 during his first voyage. This historical importance, the island's tropical beaches, and its proximity to the United States have made tourism ...
San Salvador ( Spanish pronunciation: [san salβaˈðoɾ] ;) is the capital and the largest city [ 5 ] of El Salvador and its eponymous department. [ 6 ] It is however the country's largest agglomeration. It is the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. [ 7 ] The Municipality of San Salvador has 525,990 inhabitants ...
District 1. District 1 has a total population of 118,325 as of 2009. The population is made up by 63,895 females and 54,430 males, giving the District a gender ratio of 1.17:1 (For every one male there are 1.17 females). The district is limited by the municipalities of Mejicanos, and Cuscatancingo on the north, by the Alameda Juan Pablo II on ...
Guanahani. Guanahaní (meaning "small upper waters land") [ 1] was the Taíno name of an island in the Bahamas that was the first land in the New World sighted and visited by Christopher Columbus ' first voyage, on 12 October 1492. It is a bean-shaped island that Columbus called San Salvador.
The total land area of El Salvador is 23,041 km 2, with 20,721 km 2 of land and 320 km 2 of water. El Salvador is about the size of Israel and the U.S states of New Jersey and Vermont, but has the population size of Libya and Lebanon. El Salvador has 590 km of borders, including 391 km of borders with Honduras and 199 km with Guatemala. El ...
601.51/km 2 (1,557.9/sq mi) SV-SA. CP 2201. Website. www .santaana .gob .sv (in Spanish) Santa Ana ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanta ˈana]) is the second largest city in El Salvador, after the capital of San Salvador. It is located 64 kilometers northwest of San Salvador, the capital city. Santa Ana has approximately 277,264 (2020) inhabitants ...
1663 (facade) The Chiesa di San Salvatore (of the Holy Savior) is a church in Venice, northern Italy. Known in Venetian as San Salvador, is located on the Campo San Salvador, along the Merceria, the main shopping street of Venice. The church was first consecrated in 1177 by Pope Alexander III shortly after his reconciliation with Emperor ...
Sensuntepeque is located about 83 kilometres (52 mi) northeast of the capital, San Salvador and about 27 kilometres (17 mi) northeast of Ilobasco, in northern central El Salvador. It is situated on the southern declivity of Pelón mountain [ 8 ] at an altitude of 820 metres (2,690 ft), [ 1 ] [ 9 ] and covers an area of 306.33 square kilometres ...