Santa Ana is the second most important city in El Salvador, located at 64 kilometers west from San Salvador, the capital city. Santa Ana has approximately 250,000 inhabitants and serves both as the capital of the department of Santa Ana and as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. This article is about the Salvadoran capital city. ... Categories: Central America geography stubs | Departments of El Salvador ... A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ...
Many fine examples of Spanish colonial architecture can be found in the city:
Catedral de Santa Ana (Santa Ana's Cathedral)
Alcaldía Municipal (Santa Ana's City Hall)
Teatro de Santa Ana (Santa Ana's Theatre)
A major processing center for El Salvador's sizable coffee industry is located near Santa Ana. Coffee in beverage form. ...
Currently, the mayor of Santa Ana, Orlando Mena, is from the FMLN or the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, the main left-wing political party. Mena was reelected in the national elections of March 2003. Shafik Handal Revolution or Death, We will win! El Salvador in struggle. ... 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → A timeline of events in the news for March, 2003. ...
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Municipality of Santa Ana
Teatro de Santa Ana
Catedral de Santa Ana
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SantaAna, ElSalvador's highest volcano, is a massive, 2381-m-high andesitic-to-basaltic stratovolcano that rises immediately west of Coatepeque caldera.
West of the crater the morphology of volcano suggests the existence of an edifice collapse scar, that is believed to have produced an avalanche debris that covered approximately 200 km2 and formed the Acajutla peninsula to the south.
Williams, H., and H. Meyer-Abich, Volcanism in the Southern Part of ElSalvador With Particular Reference to the Collapse basins of Lakes Coatepeque and Ilopang o, Univ. Calif.
SantaAna was particularly active during the late 1500's and again in the late 1800's.
El Picacho, the prominent peak of highest elevation (1,960 meters altitude) to the northeast of the crater, and El Jabali, the peak to the northwest of the crater, represent remnants of an older, larger edifice.
SantaAna, ElSalvador's highest volcano (2,365 meters), is a massive stratovolcano immediately west of Coatepeque caldera.
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