Quezaltepeque (El Salvador)
Quezaltepeque is a town in the department of La Libertad in El Salvador . The city has 56,181 inhabitants (as of 2013) and an area of 125.38 km². It is located at an altitude of 514 meters north of the Parque Nacional El Boqueron nature reserve on the Panamericana main road, around 20 kilometers north of San Salvador .
history
The settlement was founded in the time before Christopher Columbus with the name in the Pipil language Cerro del Quetzal . Quetzal is the name of a bird of the genus Trogone that is native to this region.
In 1550 about a thousand Pipilenians lived there , the settlement then belonged to the territory of the rule of Kuskatan . In the course of time, the name of the settlement changed to Quezaltepec (around 1740) then San José Quezaltepeque and after the establishment of the Department La Libertad in 1865 it was given the current name Quezaltepeque without the addition of San José. In the historical records, the settlement received the title of villa on March 10, 1874. In 1890 Quezaltepeque had a population of 5,486. On April 6, 1905, the place received the title of city (Ciudad Quezaltepeque).
The El Jabalí volcano in the immediate vicinity of the city last erupted in 1917.
Worth seeing
sons and daughters of the town
- Salvador Sánchez Cerén (* 1944), President of El Salvador
literature
- Diccionario Geográfico de El Salvador, Tomo II, LZ. San Salvador: Instituto Geográfico Nacional
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 13 ° 50 ′ N , 89 ° 16 ′ W