Satellite Image, Photo of San Salvador, El Salvador
Capital of El Salvador,
funded in 1525 by Gonzalo de Alvarado, on the Río Ace Chaute in the Valle
de las Hamacas (Valley of the Hammocks) at an altitude of 2,238 ft (682
m). The first inhabitants were Pokomanes, Lencas y Chortis; and then the
Pipiles y Ulúas. All of them ethnics groups forming the roots with the
Spanish of what are now the 1.5 millions population of he city.