San Salvador
The San Salvador Volcano is a stratovolcano situated northwest to the city of San Salvador. The crater has been nearly filled with a relatively newer edifice, the Boquerón volcano.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,893 metres
- Description: Stratovolcano in El Salvador
- Also known as: “De San Salvador”, “San Salvador Volcano”, “Volcán de Quezaltepeque”, and “Volcán San Salvador”
Places of Interest
Highlights include El Boqueron National Park.
El Boqueron National Park
Photo: Efegé, Public domain.
El Boqueron National Park is in central El Salvador, just outside the capital city of San Salvador. The park's primary attraction is the San Salvador Volcano.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colón and Santa Tecla.
Colón
Town
Colón is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador, bordering Santa Tecla, Quezaltepeque, San Juan Opico, Ciudad Arce and Sacacoyo y Talnique. It was previously known as El Guarumal, made a town on 20 August 1886 and a villa on 24 July 1986.
Santa Tecla
Santa Tecla, formerly known as Nueva San Salvador, is a city and a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador. It is the capital of the department of La Libertad.
Antiguo Cuscatlán
Town
Photo: Sammiethedeadrat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Antiguo Cuscatlán is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador; its eastern tip lies in the San Salvador Department part of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, southwest of San Salvador and southeast of Santa Tecla. Antiguo Cuscatlán is situated 8 km southeast of San Salvador.
San Salvador
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: El Salvador, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
13.73122° or 13° 43′ 52″ northLongitude
-89.28979° or 89° 17′ 23″ westElevation
1,893 metres (6,211 feet)Open location code
765GPPJ6+F3OpenStreetMap ID
node 5348050061OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“San Salvador” goes by many names.
- Basque: “San Salvador sumendia”
- Bulgarian: “Сан Салвадор (вулкан)”
- Bulgarian: “Сан Салвадор”
- Cebuano: “Volcán de San Salvador”
- Chinese: “圣萨尔瓦多火山”
- Czech: “San Salvador”
- Dutch: “San Salvador”
- Esperanto: “El Boquerón”
- Esperanto: “Quetzaltepec”
- Esperanto: “San Salvador”
- Esperanto: “San-Salvadoro”
- French: “Quezaltepeque”
- French: “San Salvador”
- German: “Vulkan San Salvador”
- Japanese: “サン・サルバドル火山”
- Japanese: “ロマ・カルデーラ山”
- Lithuanian: “San Salvadoro ugnikalnis”
- Occitan (post 1500): “San Salvador”
- Polish: “San Salvador”
- Russian: “Сан-Сальвадор”
- Serbo-Croatian: “San Salvador (vulkan)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “San Salvador”
- Slovak: “Quetzaltepec”
- Slovak: “San Salvador”
- Spanish: “Volcan de Quezaltepec”
- Spanish: “Volcán de Quezaltepec”
- Spanish: “Volcan de San Salvador”
- Spanish: “Volcán de San Salvador”
- Spanish: “Volcan Quezaltepec”
- Spanish: “Volcán Quezaltepec”
- Ukrainian: “Сан-Сальвадор”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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