San Salvador
San Salvador is the capital city of El Salvador, approximately in the center of the country in a valley near the base of the San Salvador volcano. It provides a good base for exploring the rest of the country as it's a transportation hub, with most major roads running through it due to its central location.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Theatre of El Salvador and Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen.
National Theatre of El Salvador
Theater building
Photo: Cesarlainez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Teatro Nacional de El Salvador, or National Theatre of El Salvador began construction on November 3, 1911, by the French architect Daniel Beylard; and inaugurated March 1, 1917.
Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen
Museum
Photo: Floriando, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen is a museum located in San Salvador, El Salvador. It was founded in the late 1990s by the Venezuelan journalist Carlos Henríquez Consalvi as a museum dedicated to collecting and preserving memories of the Salvadoran civil war, incorporating memories across the political spectrum.
Museo Universitario de Antropología
Museum
Photo: Olivia Isabel Flores, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Museo Universitario de Antropología is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mejicanos and Delgado.
Mejicanos
Town
Mejicanos is a district of San Salvador Centro municipality in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. Mejicanos is a city located in San Salvador Department and part of the San Salvador metropolitan area.
Delgado
Town
Photo: Albert2022, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ciudad Delgado is a district in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. It is a part of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador.
Cuscatancingo
Town
Cuscatancingo is a district in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. It is located about 4 kilometres from the city of San Salvador and has a population of about 50,000. It is part of the San Salvador metropolitan area. The geographical coordinates are…
San Salvador
- Type: City with 316,000 residents
- Description: capital of El Salvador
- Categories: big city, administrative territorial entity, district of El Salvador, and locality
- Location: Municipio de San Salvador Centro, San Salvador Department, Western El Salvador, El Salvador, Central America, North America
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Latitude
13.699° or 13° 41′ 56″ northLongitude
-89.1914° or 89° 11′ 29″ westPopulation
316,000Elevation
653 metres (2,142 feet)IATA airport code
SALUnited Nations Location Code
SV SALOpen location code
765GMRX5+HCOpenStreetMap ID
node 197701710OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3583361Wikidata ID
Q3110
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“San Salvador” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “San Salvador”
- Albanian: “San Salvadori”
- Amharic: “ሳን ሳልቫዶር”
- Arabic: “سان سلفادور”
- Aragonese: “San Salvador”
- Armenian: “Սան Սալվադոր”
- Asturian: “San Salvador”
- Aymara: “San Salvador”
- Azerbaijani: “San Salvador”
- Azerbaijani: “San-Salvador”
- Balinese: “San Salvador”
- Basque: “San Salvador”
- Belarusian: “Сан Сальвадор”
- Belarusian: “Сан-Сальвадор”
- Bengali: “সান সালভাদোর”
- Bosnian: “San Salvador”
- Breton: “San Salvador”
- Bulgarian: “Сан Салвадор”
- Catalan: “San Salvador”
- Cebuano: “San Salvador (ulohang dakbayan)”
- Cebuano: “San Salvador”
- Chechen: “Сан-Сальвадор”
- Chinese: “San Salvador”
- Chinese: “圣萨尔瓦多”
- Chinese: “聖薩爾瓦多”
- Croatian: “San Salvador”
- Czech: “San Salvador”
- Danish: “San Salvador”
- Dutch: “San Salvador”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سان سلفادور”
- Esperanto: “San-Salvadoro”
- Estonian: “San Salvador”
- Fiji Hindi: “San Salvador”
- Finnish: “San Salvador”
- French: “Salvador”
- French: “San Salvador”
- Galician: “San Salvador, O Salvador”
- Galician: “San Salvador”
- Georgian: “სან-სალვადორი”
- German: “San Salvador”
- Greek: “Σαν Σαλβαδόρ”
- Gujarati: “સેન સાલ્વાડોર”
- Haitian: “San Salvadò”
- Hakka Chinese: “San Salvador”
- Hausa: “San Salvador”
- Hebrew: “סן סלוודור”
- Hindi: “सान-साल्वाडोर”
- Hindi: “सैन सैल्वाडोर”
- Hungarian: “San Salvador”
- Icelandic: “San Salvador / Biðeyjan”
- Icelandic: “San Salvador”
- Ido: “San Salvador”
- Ido: “San-Salvador”
- Inari Sami: “San Salvador”
- Indonesian: “San Salvador”
- Interlingua: “San Salvador”
- Interlingue: “San Salvador”
- Irish: “San Salvador”
- Italian: “San Salvador”
- Japanese: “サンサルバドル”
- Javanese: “San Salvador”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ಸಾಲ್ವಡೋರ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “San Salvador”
- Kazakh: “Сан-Сальвадор қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Сан-Сальвадор”
- Kikuyu: “San Salvador”
- Korean: “산살바도르”
- Korean: “싼쌀바도르”
- Kotava: “San Salvador”
- Kurdish: “San Salvador”
- Ladino: “San Salvador”
- Latin: “Urbs Sancti Salvatoris”
- Latvian: “Sansalvadora”
- Ligurian: “San Salvador”
- Lingala: “San Salvador”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “San Salvador”
- Lithuanian: “San Salvadoras”
- Livvi: “San-Sal’vador”
- Lombard: “San Salvador”
- Luxembourgish: “San Salvador”
- Macedonian: “Сан Салвадор”
- Malagasy: “San Salvador”
- Malay: “San Salvador”
- Malayalam: “സാൻ സാൽവദോർ”
- Maltese: “San Salvador”
- Manipuri: “ꯁꯥꯟ ꯁꯥꯜꯚꯥꯗꯣꯔ”
- Marathi: “सान साल्वादोर”
- Marathi: “सान साल्व्हाडोर”
- Min Dong Chinese: “San Salvador”
- Min Nan Chinese: “San Salvador”
- Minangkabau: “San Salvador”
- Mingrelian: “სან-სალვადორი”
- Moksha: “Сан Сальвадор”
- Mongolian: “Сан-Сальвадор”
- Moroccan Arabic: “سان سالڤادور”
- Nauru: “San Salvador”
- Northern Frisian: “San Salvador”
- Northern Sami: “San Salvador”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “San Salvador”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “San Salvador”
- Norwegian: “San Salvador”
- Novial: “San Salvador”
- Occitan (post 1500): “San Salvador”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sanct Hǣlendburg”
- Ossetian: “Сан-Сальвадор”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਨ ਸਾਲਵਾਦੋਰ”
- Papiamento: “San Salvador”
- Persian: “سان سالوادور”
- Piemontese: “San Salvador”
- Polish: “San Salvador”
- Polish: “San Salwador”
- Portuguese: “San Salvador”
- Portuguese: “São Salvador”
- Pushto: “سان سلوادور”
- Quechua: “San Salvador”
- Romanian: “San Salvador”
- Russian: “Сан-Сальвадор”
- Sardinian: “San Salvador”
- Scots: “San Salvador”
- Scottish Gaelic: “San Salvador”
- Serbian: “Сан Салвадор”
- Serbo-Croatian: “San Salvador”
- Shona: “San Salvador”
- Silesian: “San Salvador”
- Sindhi: “سان سيلويڊور”
- Sinhala: “සැන් සැල්වදෝරය”
- Skolt Sami: “San Salvador”
- Slovak: “San Salvador”
- Slovenian: “San Salvador”
- Spanish: “San Salvador”
- Swahili: “San Salvador”
- Swedish: “San Salvador”
- Tagalog: “San Salvador”
- Tajik: “Сан Салвадор”
- Tajik: “Сан-Салвадор”
- Talysh: “San Salvador”
- Tamil: “சான் சல்வடோர்”
- Tamil: “ஸேன் ஸல்வடார்”
- Tatar: “Сан-Сальвадор”
- Telugu: “సాన్ సాల్వడార్”
- Thai: “ซันซัลวาดอร์”
- Thai: “ซานซัลวาดอร์”
- Tibetan: “སན་སལ་ཝ་ཌོར།”
- Turkish: “San Salvador”
- Turkmen: “San Salwador”
- Udmurt: “Сан-Сальвадор”
- Uighur: “سان سالۋادور”
- Ukrainian: “Сан-Сальвадор”
- Urdu: “سان سلواڈور”
- Uzbek: “San-Salvador”
- Venetian: “San Salvador”
- Veps: “San Sal’vador”
- Vietnamese: “San Salvador”
- Volapük: “San Salvador”
- Waray (Philippines): “San Salvador”
- Welsh: “San Salvador”
- Western Frisian: “San Salvador”
- Wu Chinese: “圣萨尔瓦多”
- Yakut: “Сан Салвадор”
- Yiddish: “סאן סאלוואדאר”
- Yoruba: “San Salvador”
- Yue Chinese: “聖薩爾瓦多”
- Zulu: “i-San Salvador”
- “San Salvador”
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