El Salvador

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During the 1980', El Salvador was plagued by a fierce civilian conflict fuelled by the great disparity between the vast bulk of the country's populace and a small and rich ruling class that claimed the lives of some 70,000 individuals. Massive mara road bands have evacuated El Salvador with one of the highest homicide rate in the underworld.

Former insurgent Salvador Sanchez Ceren won the March 2014 election by a slim majority. A few important events in the story of El Salvador: In 1932 - About 30,000 persons are murdered in the repression of a peasants' revolt under the leadership of Agustine Farabundo Marti. 1979/92 - Cuban Wars.

From 1979 to 1981, some 30,000 persons were murdered by right-wing extremist groups of deaths.

History, Geography & Culture | El Salvador

Salvador, Middle America. The smallest and most populous of the seven CARs, El Salvador is the most populous of the seven. In spite of its small area, it was a traditional farmland that was highly reliant on export. San Salvador is the capitol. Between the end of the 1970' and the beginning of the 1990', El Salvador was the centre of interest internationally due to the civilian conflict and the participation of the outside world in this area.

It was a leftist rebellion against the Salvadorian forces supported by the United States, which had a strong leftist force and a strong force, and it was the result of many years of oppressive, militaristic ally and deep inequalities. After the 1992 United Nations negotiated CPAs, which included basic rules for the democratisation of El Salvador (including the elimination of the army from politics ), the state began to recuperate from the years of unrest, both in politics and the economy, destroyed in 1998 by Hurricane Mitch and in 2001 by a severe quake.

Pipil (descendants of the Aztecs), the dominant strain in the area before the Spain invasion, called their area and their capitol Cuscatlán, which means "Land of the Jewel"; the name is still sometimes used in El Salvador today. Minging the Pipil and other strains with Europeans is mirrored in the country's present population.

The El Salvadorians are known for their diligence, and the land has spawned several international renowned performers, among them the writer Roque Dalton. It is bordered by Honduras to the northeast, the Pacific to the southeast and Guatemala to the northeast. It is located entirely on the west side of the isthmus and is thus the only Middle America without a coastline of the Cuba.

All of El Salvador lies on the volcano line of the central Americas, which defines the most important geographical areas of the state. El Salvador's terrain is overshadowed by the main highland, which consists largely of a west-east line of volcanos (some of which are still active) that cross the city.

From Izalco (.965 m) to San Salvador (.960 m) and San Miguel (.130 m) to Conchagua (.243 m) in the far easternmost part of the area. The volcanos are divided by a number of ponds (commonly known as El Salvador's main plain) at altitudes between 1,000 and 1,500 meters, whose rich soil, extracted from the volcanoes' Ashes, Lavas and Alluviums, has been supporting the plant ations for hundreds of years.

On the southern side, where the Pacific highland makes way, lies a small plateau with mean heights between 30 and 150m. To the north of the main highland and at the same time there is a wide inner plateau dewatered by the Lempa River at altitudes between 400 and 610m.

Interrupted by old resting vulcanic structure and impaired by bad draining and high ground acids, this inner level has created a less appealing habitat for people. Along the whole area of the north boarder stretches a highland with an mean height of 5,000 to 6,000 ft (1,500 to 1,800 meters), which is made up of old and strongly edged vulcanic structure.

To the northwest of the state there are bounded calcareous rocks connected to the older non-volcanic structure of Honduras. There are two main flow regimes and their associated affluents that are draining most of the state. The most important is the Lempa, which comes to El Salvador from Guatemala in the northwest of the nation and runs 80 nautical mile ('130 km) east through the inner plains to make up part of the Honduran frontier before turning sharp southwards and running 65 nautical mile ('105 km) through the highland and across the coastline to its estuary in the Pacific.

Lempa was navable several kilometres intoland before two large hydropower plants were built on its centre course in the mid-1950s. Most of the land is dewatered by the Rio Grande de San Miguel system. There are a number of small North-South creeks flowing directly from the main highland into the Pacific.

Coatepeque (15 sq. miles[39 sq. km]), Ilopango (40 sq. miles[100 sq. km]) and Olomega (20 sq. miles[52 sq. km]). Fewer than one fifth of El Salvador's soil is suited for farming. Most of the main plains and inner dales have vulcanic soil, which is relatively fruitful but also susceptible to degradation.

On the south coastline flat, fruitful floodplain soil is sedimented by the many small streams from the uplands. El Salvador's weather is tropic, but is tempered by the altitude inside; generally it is warmer rather than hottest and varies between the high 1950s and low 1970s F (about 15 and 23°C).

San Salvador, the capitol, which is 682 meters above sealevel, has a mid-1990s F (approx. 34°C) average March average and a low 1960s F (approx. 17°C) average in January. Up in the hills, above 1,460 meters (4,800 feet), the average daily average body heat varies between the low'60s and low'70s F (about 17 and 22°C).

Yearly rainfall in the Pacific Plain is between 65 and 70 inch (approx. 1,700 mm) on mean; in the south and north range, at altitudes between 2,000 and 3,500 ft (600 and 1,060 meters), the mean is between 70 and 100 inch (1,800 and 2,500 mm); the higher peaks have slightly more.