Cuscatlán Department

Cuscatlán
Location of Cuscatlán in El Salvador
Data
Capital	Cojutepeque
population	266.200 (Ber. 2017)
surface	766 km²
Population density	348 inhabitants / km²
structure	17th
ISO 3166-2	SV-CU
Website	Amss.gob.sv

Cuscatlán is one of 14 departments in El Salvador .

The capital of the department is Cojutepeque . The name Cuscatlán goes back to the language Nawat (Pipil) and means something like "land of jewels". The department was founded on May 22nd, 1835.

The main industries in Cuscatlán are the cultivation of sugar cane , coffee and tobacco . The department is known for the sausage specialty chorizo .

Municipios

The department of Cuscatlán is in turn divided into 17 municipalities :

Candelaria	Cojutepeque
El Carmen	El Rosario
Monte San Juan	Oratorio de Concepción
San Bartolomé Perulapía	San Cristobal
San Jose Guayabal	San Pedro Perulapán
San Rafael Cedros	San Ramón
Santa Cruz Analquito	Santa Cruz Michapa
Suchitoto	Tenancingo
Zacatecas

Web links

• Department of Cuzcatlan. Alcaldía Municipal de San Salvador, accessed February 14, 2009 (Spanish). 

Coordinates: 13 ° 48 ′  N , 89 ° 0 ′  W