Ilopango (city)
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Coordinates: 13 ° 40 ′ N , 89 ° 3 ′ W Ilopango on the map of El Salvador
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| Country | El Salvador | |
| Department | San Salvador | |
| Residents | 159,232 (2009) | |
| Detailed data | ||
| surface | 34.6 km² | |
| height | 442 m | |
| Waters | Lake Ilopango | |
| Time zone | UTC −6 | |
| City Presidency | Salvador Ruano | |
Ilopango is an administrative district ( Municipio ) about twelve kilometers east of San Salvador , the capital of El Salvador .
location
The municipality is located on the eroded stratovolcano of the same name, Ilopango . It is bordered to the north by Tonacatepeque and San Martín, to the east by Lago de Ilopango , to the south by Santiago Texacuangos and Santo Tomás, and to the west by Soyapango . The municipality is divided into 4 cantons and 31 caseríos. The main rivers are the Río Las Cañas and the Río cerro El Amatitán .
In agriculture, staple grains and coffee are mainly grown. Livestock is farmed in the areas of domestic cattle, riding horses, mules, domestic pigs and poultry.
history
The crater lake Lago de Ilopango in the caldera of the Ilopango is known because of the air force base located there. The unionist Miguel Mármol was born in Ilopango. He reported on the social problems caused by the establishment of the air force base and the garrison . Mármol took part in the organization of the Ilopango fishermen's protest. He reported to Dalton about a petition from the fishermen of Lake Ilopango , which opposed the fencing of the shore property, which threatened the practice of fishing. The founding meeting of the Partido Comunista de El Salvador took place on a beach on Lake Ilopango. Miguel Mármol was one of its founding members.
Aeropuerto de Ilopango
On March 20, 1923, the Ilopango airfield was opened as a military airfield . At the time of the ethnocide in 1932 , planes took off here to bomb indigenous people , and during the Iran-Contra affair a hangar was reserved for the US arms and drug trafficking here. Today's Aeropuerto de Ilopango Airport is also home to the Autoridad de Aviación Civil , the Savaldorian aviation authority .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roque Dalton The world is a limping centipede. The Century of Miguel Mármol , translated from Salvadoran Spanish by Michael Schwahn and Andreas Simmen, Rotpunktverlag Zurich, March 1997, pp. 98–100, ISBN 3-85869-072-4 ; (The Spanish original edition was published in 1972 under the title Miguel Mármol. Los sucedes de 1932 en El Salvador at EDUCA in San José, Costa Rica).
- ^ Dalton p. 92.
- ^ Dalton p. 113.
- ↑ aeroflight.co.uk Fuerza Aérea Salvadoreña .