OFFICIAL NAME: El Salvador CAPITAL CITY: San Salvador POPULATION: 6,820,000 (2007) AREA: 21,041 km² OFFICIAL LANGUAGE (S): Spanish, quite a few Native American languages RELIGION: Catholics 86%, Protestants and others 14% COIN: dollars CURRENCY CODE: USD ENGLISH NAME: El Salvador INDEPENDENCE: 1841 POPULATION COMPOSITION: mestizer 90%, whites (especially of Spanish origin) 9%, Indians 1% GDP… Read More »
Subchapters: Basic data Public finances and the state budget Banking system Tax System Basic data El Salvador is a small dollar economy dependent on investment, trade and remittance inflows from the US, making it vulnerable to external economic influences. 2021 saw a sharp economic recovery, with the country’s GDP growing by 10.2% and output returning… Read More »
The Spanish conquest and independence The territory corresponding to the current El Salvador, populated in pre-Columbian times by indigenous tribes belonging to two groups Lenca and Pipil, was conquered by the Spaniards after more than four years of bloody wars (1524-28) and remained dependent for the entire colonial age on ‘Audiencia of Guatemala, in turn… Read More »
History Precolumbian era Before the arrival of the Spaniards to America, the current Salvadoran territory was inhabited by different indigenous ethnic groups, highlighting the Pipiles, a population of Nahuatl origin that occupied the western and central region of the territory and the Lencas that populated the eastern part of the country. But the most extensive domain until the… Read More »
On the western side of Central America and on the Pacific coast, lies El Salvador. It is the smallest state in Central America and is also the only country that does not have a coast facing the Caribbean Sea. According to itypeauto, the country has often been called the “Land of Volcanoes”, although volcanoes are… Read More »