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El Salvador is a country in Central America with a population of around 6.9 million people. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the north and east by Honduras, and to the south by the Pacific Ocean. It is the most densely populated nation on the American mainland (especially in its capital, San Salvador), and also the most industrialized country in Central America. Its official name is Republic of El Salvador (Spanish: República de El Salvador, IPA: [re'puβlika ðe el salβa'ðor]). The country was named after the Spanish word for "The Saviour", in honor of Jesus Christ, and its territory was known prehispanically as Cuscatlán.
Acajutla is a seaport and municipality in Sonsonate Department, El Salvador. The town is located at on the Pacific Coast of Central America and is El Salvador's principle seaport from which a large portion of the nation's exports of coffee, sugar, and balsam are shipped. As a municipality, Acajutla is one of seventeen such districts in Sonsonate. As of 1992 the population of the town was 18,008, and of the municipality 47,678.
Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado, under the command of Hernan Cortés, had conquered Mexico and Guatemala before coming to the vicinity of Acajutla. There he met heavy resistance but defeated the indigenous people in 1524 and conquered all of present-day El Salvador.
Acajutla became an important colonial port for the Spanish Empire as part of the Kingdom of Guatemala, which was subordinate to the Vicetoyality of New Spain.
Following the complete independence of El Salvador in 1838, the economy of the nation became increasinging dependent on the export of coffee. The rapid growth of this lucrative "cash crop" led to profound socio-economic changes in the region, and drew of the attention of foreign investors and the local plantation owners to Acajutla, where infrastructure development was seen as necessary to assure the transport of crops from the interior and the ability to load them efficiently aboard ships.
The 1855 completion of the Panama Railway across the Isthmus of Panama further added to the activity at the port of Acajutla. With a convenient means of transporting goods between the Caribbean and the Pacific, additional shipping lines were created to carry these goods up and down the Pacific coast to and from the western terimnus of the railway. Acajutla was a regular port of call from which coffee and sugar were shipped to the East Coast of the United States and Europe.
On June 4, 1882, the first railway line in El Salvador began operations, with Sonsonate as the northern terminus and Acajutla as the southern terminus.
During the twelve-year Salvadoran civil war (1980-1992) the oil refinery at Acajutla (then the only operating refinery in El Salvador), was a target for anti-government rebels.
As with all the Pacific Coast of Central America, the climate at Acajutla is continuously hot and humid. Daytime high temperatures are usually in the 32ºC - 34ºC range.
Acajutla's deepwater harbor is the principal port, and for some types of shipping, there is two operational port in El Salvador. It's port cargo loading facilities allow the marine shipment of a large portion of its major exports of coffee (40%), sugar, and balsam. Its oil refinery is the national's largest and it mainly refines petroleum imported from Venezuela.
The town is also the site of a petroleum refinery, a fertilizer plant, and seafood-processing plants. The beaches there attract tourists to a growing beach-resort industry.
There are some primary schools between them: Fe y Alegría, Lizandro Larín Zepeda, Julian Vasquéz Rojas, and some other primary schools, even a high school named Instituto Nacional de Acajutla (INA).
The official language is Spanish.
They celebrate their traditional parties between the last days of May and June 02 as the main day.
One of the most important celebration is made between March and April when they celebrate the passion of Christ. In that day, people clean the roads and create decoratives images in the sand they bring from the beach, and at noon they begin the simulation of the passion from San Francisco de Asis church near Barrio La playa ending in the same location the next day in the early hours of the day.
On October 24 they make celebrations of the fishermen, in honor of San Rafael Arcangel, a day that is not highly concurred by citizens that take a little trip by fishing boat.
The cathedral of San Salvador.
Crooked Stilo is a hip-hop duo formed by brothers Victor and Johnny Lopez.
The duo spent their early years in El Salvador, a Central American nation torn apart by civil war. As youth, they immigrated with their parents to the United States in search of a new beginning and a better future. They settled in a housing project in East Los Angeles, a new environment that came with its own unique challenges.
In East Los Angeles, the brothers faced difficulties of gang warfare, drugs, alcohol, and criminal elements. They focused on their music as a protection from the shootings and fights that occurred outside of their home. The confrontations between other young immigrants and the police turned into music and the stories of their lives became their lyrics.
The boys were ambitious and planned a future for themselves that would help them get out of their poor neighborhood. They wanted to become music stars and so the brothers began to toy with a musical style of their own. They quickly found that their musical interests differed, Victor had always preferred the music of his roots, with lyrics in Spanish while Johnny loved American rap music. Representing their new reality, as Latinos living in Los Angeles, they developed a fusion of their two musical interests.
The brothers combined the Latino music that they heard from their parents with the new sounds they encountered in Los Angeles. They brought together: Celia Cruz, Willy Chirino, Los Angeles Negros, Vico C, Sonora Santanera, Camilo Sesto,Orquesta Sangre Morena,Los Hermanos Flores, Orquesta San Vicente, Gilberto Santa Rosa, DJ Negro, NWA, Gangstarr, EPMD, Big Daddy Kane, Mellow Man Ace, Biz Markie, Cypress Hill, A.L.T., Snoop Dogg, Tupac, and Notorious BIG.
They christened their new style as "crooked" because, "it consists of combining the old Latin music and new hip hop music," says Johnny. After defining their sound and style, the group Crooked Stilo began recording in 1993.
They initially recorded their work independently, sold a good amount of copies, and quickly discovered an underground community for their music. They became popular in the "underground Latino rap" scene by catching the attention of their generation. Yet, they found that radio stations were unwilling to play the music of Crooked Stilo or the burgeoning movement of urban regional.
Last year, with the success of other urban regional groups, Crooked Stilo found itself ready to release their first single, "Ya Lo Saben."
Crooked Stilo has worked and performed with artists such as P. Diddy, Daddy Yankee ("Salud y Vida" from the 2004 multi-platinum album "Barrio Fino"), Don Chezina, and are currently working on a project with Tito "El Bambino" for Mas Flow 2.5 (Luny Tunes). Their new album, "Retrasalo".
- That only 1% of El Salvador's population are indigenous?
- That El Salvador is one of the most densely populated countries in Latin America, and also one of the most industrialized?
- That El Salvador uses the U.S. Dollar as its currency?
- That the province of Sonsonate is known for its coconuts?
- March 16, 2007:
-Guatemalan police arrest Marvin Natareno for abusing drugs and then driving under the influence in the car of three Salvadoran deputies.
-Firpo football team is victorious over Chalatenango.
"May this Body immolated and this Blood sacrificed for Mankind nourish us also, that we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People."-Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero
"You know the clear nexus of the FMLN with the gangs... The pre-election violence, the burning of buses or micro-buses or the disorders that close the streets for supposed protests for water ... basically come from people related to the FMLN."-Tony Saca
"Yesterday, today and for all times, Domingo is a patriot."-Rev. Manuel Vega on Lt. Colonel Domingo Monterrosa Barrios, one of the heads of the Atlacatl Battalion responsible for El Mozote.
"May we keep hauling up the morning."-Roque Dalton
"Hagamos equipo"-Tony Saca's presidential slogan (translates into "Let's make a team")
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