Isla Zacatillo

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The Isla Zacatillo is an inhabited island in El Salvador , it is about 9 kilometers southeast of the new port Puerto La Unión Centroamericana in the Gulf of Fonseca .

The island belongs administratively to the department of La Unión and has an area of ​​around 4 km². Zacatillo was a prison island in the past and is still nicknamed Alcatraz de El Salvador . Today around 1,800 residents are active in fishing , agriculture , cattle breeding and tourism .

Well-known bathing beach is the Playa de Caguamo . There are three small hotels on the island, a supermarket, a church ( Iglesia Apostoles y Profetas ), a small hospital and a sports field. In 2004 the connecting roads between the four Zacatillo settlements were rebuilt and the drinking water supply was modernized. The Cooperación Española had financed this construction work.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La Isla Zacatillo con calle y nuevas obras newspaper article El Diario de Hoy (Spanish)

Coordinates: 13 ° 18 ′  N , 87 ° 46 ′  W