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EL SALAVDOR
EL SALAVDOR
Volcano IzalcoCuco
Juayua
Santa Ana
La libertad
The history of el salavdor
El Salvador declared it independence from Spain on Sept 15. 1821. El Salvador experienced numerous revolutions and wars against other Central American republic. In 1969, El Salvador invaded into Honduras after Honduran landowners deported several thousand Salvadorans. The four-day war is known as the “football war” because it broke out during a soccer game between the two countries. El Salvador suffered during a 12 year civil war. Finally On Jan. 16, 1992, the government signed a peace treaty with the guerrilla forces that ended the 12-year civil war that 75,000 people were killed in.
PARQUE NACIONAL EL IMPOSIBLE
Many North American songbirds winter in El Imposible National Park, named for a high mountain pass on an old trade route to Guatemala. It is for the for the preservation of jaguars, ocelots and hundreds of species of birds, butterflies, mammals and plants.
MUSEO DE LA PALABRA Y LA IMAGEN
It was formed in response to "the chaos of memory loss.” The museum preserves civil war records and welcomes researchers. The museum also has anthropologist Carl Vilhelm Hartman's 1896 photographs of indigenous Izalco communities.
PARQUE NACIONAL LOS VOLCANES
Volcanoes National Park has a 17-square-mile nature reserve and volcano complex 42 miles from San Salvador. Forested Volcán de Santa Ana is 2 million years old and last erupted in 2005. Dormant Cerro Verde is 1.5 billion years old and overgrown with tropical cloud forest.
ALFREDO CRISTIANI
He was a former president of el Salvador. He was president June 1st 1989 to June 1st 1994. He was born in a wealthy family in San Salvador, he was educated at the Escuela Americana in San Salvador and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., he graduated with a degree in Business Administration. He was successful in the peace negotiations with the FMLN. The Salvadoran Civil war ended on 16 January 1992 . He was born 1947 November 22nd.
SLANG OF COMMON WORDS
No hay bronco- no problem
¡Orale!- lets do it
Que onda- whats up
Chido- cool
¡NO MANCHES!- no way!
Simon – yes
Wey-dude
VIDEOS OF EL SALVADOR
