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. The city has a long history, with origins dating back to the Spanish conquest of the Pipil tribes.Photo: Rodet7, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Stvn87, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Teatro Nacional de El Salvador
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
Photo: Floriando, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen is an innovative museum located in San Salvador, El Salvador.
Museo Universitario de Antropología
Photo: Olivia Isabel Flores, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Museo Universitario de Antropología is a museum.
Localities in the Area
Ayutuxtepeque
Ayutuxtepeque is a municipality in the San Salvador department of El Salvador.San Salvador
- Type: City with 568,000 residents
- Description: capital of El Salvador
- Categories: big city, capital city, municipality of El Salvador and locality
- Location: 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
568,000Elevation
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
Q3110San Salvador Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afar: San Salvador
- Afrikaans: San Salvador
- Albanian: San Salvadori
- Amharic: ሳን ሳልቫዶር
- Arabic: San Salvador
- Arabic: سان سلفادور
- Aragonese: San Salvador
- Armenian: Սան Սալվադոր
- Asturian: San Salvador
- Avaric: 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
- 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
- Kazakh: Сан-Сальвадор қаласы
- 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
- 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: San Salvador
- Norwegian Bokmål: San Salvador
- Norwegian Nynorsk: San Salvador
- Novial: San Salvador
- Occitan (post 1500): San Salvador
- 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
- 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
- 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
Other Places Named San Salvador
In the Area
- Colonia Guadalupe UnoNeighbourhood
- Barrio La VegaSuburb
- Comunidad TrujilloNeighbourhood
- Barrio San EstebanSuburb
- Colonia El CarmenNeighbourhood
- Barrio ConcepciónSuburb
Popular Destinations in Western El Salvador
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page San Salvador. Photo: Rodet7, CC BY-SA 3.0.