Puerto El Triunfo

Puerto El Triunfo
Coordinates: 13 ° 17 ′  N , 88 ° 33 ′  W Puerto El Triunfo​ Puerto El Triunfo on the map of El Salvador
Basic data
Country	El Salvador
Department	Usulutan
Residents	19,600  (2006)
Detailed data
height	19  m
Waters	Río Lempa, Pacific
Time zone	UTC −6
City Presidency	Ramón Miguel Coreas Rosales, ARENA
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Puerto El Triunfo is a port and a municipality in the Usulután department in the west of the Central American state of El Salvador .

It is located 110 km from San Salvador. The municipality has 60% of the Bosque salado of El Salvador and 19,074 inhabitants.

history

After the government of Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez had come to power on June 21, 1894 , a concession to build and operate a port in the Bahía de Jiquilisco was awarded on October 6, 1894 . Two working groups applied : Simon Sol, Luis Lopez and Lorenzo Campos as well as Henry H. Burrell, George F. Thompson, Gustavo Lozano and Emeterio S. Ruano. The joint venture led by Burrell was awarded the contract. The concession fee was $ 1200 annually. Construction materials for the port could be imported duty-free and duty-free, construction workers in the port were not recruited into the army and the telegraph systems of the state of El Salvador could be used free of charge.

Henry H. Burrell became chairman of El Triunfo Company Limited , a public company incorporated under California law:

Shares / 1000	investor	Share of action USD.
5	The Salvador Commercial Company	494,339.53
10	Henry H. Burrell	4,119.98
3	JH Ellis	2,471.97
15th	George F. Thompson	12,359.54

In April 1895, the first steamer with a load of 9,000 sacks of coffee from Santiago de María set off from Puerto El Triunfo. Some shareholders complained in a letter to the executive board of El Triunfo Company Limited that steamship companies refused to accept cargo in Puerto El Triunfo . This problem was published by a daily newspaper in San Salvador with the headline, “The First Telegram from El Triunfo ” and reported, “Today El Costa Rica ran aground. The coast is uncomfortable within the territorial waters, and the captains recommend marking the area around the steamboat port with buoys, "the port is doubtful at the moment. In the same month it was announced that the Pacific Mail Steamship had refused to call at port and remained in international waters. A letter from a San Miguel business association was published claiming that the powerful steamship companies were enforcing steamers not loading cargo in certain ports, arguing that the great sandbanks in the Bahía de Jiquilisco were the cause of the Pacific Mail steamship did not call at the port. The El Triunfo Company Limited offered the steamer El Celia as a tug , which, according to the El Triunfo Company Limited, cost 22,000 pesos. There were doubts whether El Celina could haul steamers four times larger than she was. It was reported that El Celia herself had often been seen in serious trouble entering port. It was also reported that there was no suitable customs house, which had favored the importation of contraband goods. The El Triunfo Company Limited had made extensive investments, but the movement of goods in the port did not meet the expectations with which the shares had also been sold to citizens of San Miguel.

Coffee talers from Santiago De Maria had a reply printed in the same newspaper in which they pointed out that goods had been unloaded and loaded in El Triunfo without delay and free of charge , that citizens from Usulutan, San Muiguel, San Vicente, who were honorable among the shareholders, Cabañas and San Savador were owned and that even if investors had doubts about profitability, port operations would continue in Puerto El Triunfo .

In December 1896, the port estuary was recorded by the Hydrographic Office of the United States and an official map was drawn up at an estimated cost of US $ 100,000.

On June 10, 1898, a new board of directors of El Triunfo Company Limited was elected, which included Burrell and Ellis as well as Simon Sol, who had previously competed for the port concession.

The board met on June 10, 1898 after the general meeting and elected Burrell as chairman, Simon Sol as its representative, and Ellis as cashier. At the following general meeting on July 31, 1898, one of the directors from El Salvador resigned and was replaced by the election of Luis Lopez, who had also appeared as a competitor for the port concession. At a meeting of the board on the same day, Luis Lopez was elected secretary of the AG. In September 1898, Burrell was in San Salvador when Simon invited Sol to a board meeting in his house in Santiago de Maria and represented him without prior approval. Lopez and Cochella came to the meeting and it was decided to replace Burrell as chairman with Lopez and Ellis as treasurer with Cochella. On October 14, 1898, Burrell and Ellis happened to be at a board meeting at which it was decided that El Triunfo Company Limited should file for bankruptcy in the 1st District Court of Santiago De Maria . The application was made on October 19, 1898 and Mr. Meardi was appointed bankruptcy administrator.

On February 13, 1899, an advertisement appeared in the Government Gazette of El Salvador calling a general meeting of the El Triunfo Company Limited on February 28, 1899. On 14 February 1899, the Government of El Salvador submitted Tomás Regalado of El Triunfo Company Limited breach before, leaving the port of Puerto El Triunfo close by decree. The US shareholders succeeded in the US government under William McKinley adopting the interests of Asunto Burrell and making its demands on the government of El Salvador through diplomatic channels .

The US and El Salvador governments agreed on three arbitrators:

Samuel Henry Strong, Jacob McGavock Dickinson and the MP José Rosa Pacas, from Santa Ana (El Salvador) in El Salvador.

The first two submitted their majority judgment on May 8, 1902, and it recognized the following claims for compensation:

Shares / 1000	total value USD	Share of action USD.	Designation.
536	750,000.00	402,000.00	Concession and franchising
536	28,956.87	15,522.56	El Celia steamer
536	45,000.00	24,120.00	Property in El Triunfo
		2,671.31	Plaintiff's costs to get the US government to intervene.
		18,864.77	Costs of the claimant for the pursuit of their legal claims, excluding legal and consultancy fees.
		60,000.00	The applicant's costs for attorney and consultant fees.

The US government had sued for payment of USD 523,178.64 , and the majority judges recognized USD 523,188.64.

economy

From the fishing industry in Puerto El Triunfo , PEZCA SA , Mariscos de El Salvador and Atarraya SA have ceased operations in the port.

politics

In 2005, José Emilio Flores Partido Demócrata Cristiano was mayor

Islands in the Bahía de Jiquilisco

• Corral De Mulas
• Espiritu Santo
• Madresal
• Peninsula San Juan Del Gozo

Individual evidence

1. ^ El Salvador Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores Reclamacion del ciudadano norteamericano Alfredo W. Burrell en nombre de la corporación "The Salvador commercial co." como accionista de la Compañía de "El Triunfo lda." Alegatos y documentos justificativos. 1900-1902. Imprenta nacional, San Salvador 1902
2. ↑ Chairman of the Supreme Court of Canada ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. English 
3. ↑ UNITED NATIONS , 8 May 1902, Claim of the Salvador Commercial Company ("El Triunfo Company") (English, PDF; 298 kB)