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Coordinates: 13 ° 43 ′ N , 89 ° 43 ′ W Sonata on the map of El Salvador
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 Location of Sonsonate in El Salvador
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| Country | El Salvador | |
| Department | Sonata | |
| Residents | 71,541 | |
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| Time zone | UTC −6 | |
| City Presidency | José Roberto Aquino Ruiz ( ARENA ), 2009–2012 | |
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Sonsonate is a city in western El Salvador. It is the capital of the department of the same name , is 62 km west of San Salvador and has 71,541 inhabitants (2007).
Place name
The place name is derived from the Nawat name Centzunat ("four hundred water" or "great river"). The numeral for 400 is called centzontli in Nahuatl (consisting of the roots ce [n] , "one" and tzon [tli] , " four hundred "), which corresponds to the word sentzun (centzun) in Nawat ; Nawat at (Nahuatl atl ) means "water".
history
The city was founded in 1552 by Antonio Rodríguez under the name Villa del Espíritu Santo and was named Villa de la Santísima Trinidad de Sonsonate in 1553 by Pedro Ramírez de Quiñónez and the Franciscan Bishop Marroquín . Sonsonate was the seat of the Alcaldía Mayor de Sonsonate in the General Capitanate of Guatemala during colonial times . In 1824 it became the seat of the department and in 1834 under President José Gregorio Salazar the capital of the Central American Confederation , until San Salvador took over this function.
In 1932 Sonsonate was a center of the uprising of Pipil farmers from the area, from Izalco and Juayúa, against the large landowners and the military rule of General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez . The mayor of Sonsonate was killed, for which the peasant leader Feliciano Ama from Izalco was wrongly held responsible. After the suppression of the uprising, there was the matanza , a massacre that killed around 30,000 people across El Salvador in early 1932. The Nawat language of the Pipil was subsequently banned and brought to the brink of extinction within a few decades.
On May 31, 1986 the Roman Catholic diocese of Sonsonate was established. The main church of the diocese is the Cathedral of Santísima Trinidad .
sons and daughters of the town
- Marcelo Arévalo (* 1990), tennis player
- Rafael Arévalo (* 1986), tennis player
- Luís Salvador Efraín Salazar Arrué (1899–1975), writer
- Rafael Campo Pomar (1813–1890), President of El Salvador from February 12, 1856 to February 27, 1857
- Óscar Osorio Hernández (1910–1969), President of El Salvador from September 14, 1950 to September 14, 1956
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Resultados Alcaldes Electos en El Salvador para 2009-2012 ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Miguel Marmol and Oscar Martínez Peñate on the farmer's guide José Feliciano Ama (eltorogoz.net)
