San Miguel Depairtment (El Salvador)

San Miguel
Depairtment
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Location athin El Salvador
Coordinates: 13°31′19″N 88°14′02″W
Kintra	El Salvador
Creatit (gien current status)	1824
Seat	San Miguel
Area
• Total	2077.1 km2 (802.0 sq mi)
Area rank	Rankit 2nt
Population
• Total	478,792
• Rank	Rankit 4t
• Density	230/km2 (600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−6 (CST)
ISO 3166 code	SV-SM

San Miguel is a depairtment o El Salvador in the eastren pairt o the kintra. The caipital is San Miguel. It haes a aurie o 2,077 km² an a population o ower 478,000.

San Miguel wis first kent as San Miguel de la Frontera. The ceety wis foondit bi Luis de Moscoso on 8 Mey 1530, whaur it is nou Santa Elena. This territory wis pairt o the Lenca Principality at the time o the conquest. On 11 Julie 1812 it wis gien the title o "Noble y Leal Ciudad" (noble an lyal ceety). It wis made a depairtment on 12 Juin 1824.

Municipalities

A beach in El Cuco, San Miguel

1. Carolina
2. Chapeltique
3. Chinameca
4. Chirilagua
5. Ciudad Barrios
6. Comacarán
7. El Tránsito
8. Lolotique
9. Moncagua
10. Nueva Guadalupe
11. Nuevo Edén de San Juan
12. Quelepa
13. San Antonio
14. San Gerardo
15. San Jorge
16. San Luis de la Reina
17. San Miguel
18. San Rafael
19. Sesori
20. Uluazapa

Agricultur

The products that are mair cultivatit are the basic grains, henequen an succar cane, fruits, oleaginous seeds, mangrove, an grass. The upbringin o bovine, swinish, goat, an mule livestock exists an the upbringin o corral birds an o bees. Amang the maist important manufacturin, thare is the elaboration o nutritious products, threads, yarns, drinks, cotton fabrics, clothes, leather articles, detergents, soaps, milk, an construction material.

Tourism

Thare are a few beaches in the San Miguel depairtment, for instance in El Cuco.

References

• El Salvador at GeoHive Archived 2016-09-28 at the Wayback Machine