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Water Body Attractions In El Salvador

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El Salvador , officially the Republic of El Salvador , is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. As of 2016, the country had a population of approximately 6.34 million.El Salvador was for centuries inhabited by several Mesoamerican nations, especially the Cuzcatlecs, as well as the Lenca and Maya. In the early 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. However the...
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Water Body Attractions In El Salvador

  • 1. Lake Ilopango San Salvador
    Lake Ilopango is a crater lake which fills a scenic 8 by 11 km volcanic caldera in central El Salvador, on the borders of the San Salvador, La Paz, and Cuscatlán departments. The caldera, which contains the second largest lake in the country and is immediately east of the capital city, San Salvador, has a scalloped 100 m to 500 m high rim. Any surplus drains via the Jiboa River to the Pacific Ocean. An eruption of the Ilopango volcano is considered a possible source for the extreme weather events of 535–536. The local military airbase, Ilopango International Airport, has annual airshows where international pilots from all over the world fly over San Salvador City and Ilopango lake.
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  • 3. Gulf of Fonseca La Union
    The Gulf Cartel is a criminal syndicate and drug trafficking organization in Mexico, and perhaps one of the oldest organized crime groups in the country. It is currently based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, directly across the U.S. border from Brownsville, Texas. Their network is international, and are believed to have dealings with crime groups in Europe, West Africa, Asia, Central America, South America, and the United States. Besides drug trafficking, the Gulf Cartel operates through protection rackets, assassinations, extortions, kidnappings, and other criminal activities. The members of the Gulf Cartel are known for intimidating the population and for being particularly violent.Although its founder Juan Nepomuceno Guerra smuggled alcohol in large quantities to the United States during the ...
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  • 4. Lake Coatepeque Coatepeque
    Caldera De Coatepeque is a volcanic caldera in El Salvador in Central America. The caldera was formed during a series of minor rhyolitic explosive eruptions between about 72,000 and 57,000 years ago. Since then, basaltic cinder cones and lava flows formed near the west edge of the caldera, and six rhyodacitic lava domes have formed. The youngest dome, Cerro Pacho, formed after 8000 BC.
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  • 5. Lake of Alegria Alegria
    For rank-order lists, see List of lakes by area, List of lakes by depth, List of lakes by volume.
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  • 7. Laguna Olomega San Miguel
    Lake Olomega is a large lake in the southeastern part of El Salvador.In the past few years Lake Olomega has suffered from an infestation of Water hyacinth which has caused problems for wildlife, fishing, and tourism.Lake Olomega is located next to the town of Olomega . The community relies heavily on fishing and ecotourism. The canton Los Riitos has geothermal water and can most easily be reached by boat . For years this natural resource has received the black waters of the settlements to their round, pollution by livestock and fisheries hasn't been unregulated. With Ramsar status, the Government can make sustainable development in the area, thanks to international support. Olomega is the eastern region of El Salvador's, largest freshwater body. The site also includes the surrounding veget...
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