San Salvador (disambiguation)
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San Salvador may refer to:
San Salvador may also be:
- San SalvadorSan SalvadorThe city of San Salvador the capital and largest city of El Salvador, which has been designated a Gamma World City. Its complete name is La Ciudad de Gran San Salvador...
, capital of the Republic of El Salvador - Metropolitan Area of San SalvadorMetropolitan Area of San SalvadorSan Salvador was founded in the year 1525, it was the second city in Central America made by the Spanish. By the Year 1821 the year of Independence for El Salvador, San Salvador had a population of 10,000 inhabitants, four years later in 1825 the city grew to 25,000 Inhabitants, this was the result...
, for control of urban planning 14 municipalities are considered jurisdiction of OPAMS (Oficina de Planificacion del Area Metropolitana de San Salvador) and for practical uses 21 municipalities are being considered part of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador - San Salvador DepartmentSan Salvador DepartmentSan Salvador is a department of El Salvador in the west central part of the country. The capital is San Salvador, which is also the national capital. The department has North of the Rio Lempa Valley, the "Valle de las Hamacas" and a section of Lake Ilopango...
, department of El Salvador - San Salvador IslandSan Salvador IslandSan Salvador Island, also known as Watlings Island, is an island and district of the Bahamas. Until 1986, when the National Geographic Society suggested Samana Cay, it was widely believed that during his first expedition to the New World, San Salvador Island was the first land sighted and visited...
, in the Bahamas - Isla San Salvador, Ecuador
- San Salvador AtencoSan Salvador AtencoSan Salvador Atenco is the municipal seat of Atenco, in the Mexican state of Mexico.The name "Atenco" comes from a Nahuatl phrase meaning "place on the edge of water". -The town:...
, in the state of Mexico - San Salvador, Entre RíosSan Salvador, Entre RíosSan Salvador is a city in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It has 11,626 inhabitants per the , and is the head town of the San Salvador Department...
, a city in Argentina - San Salvador, Peru, a city in Peru
- San Salvador DistrictSan Salvador DistrictSan Salvador District is one of eight districts of the province Calca in Peru.-References:...
, Paraguay - San SalvadorTevegoTevego was a settlement and eventual penal colony in Paraguay between 1813 and 1823. It was repopulated in 1843, but then abandoned. It was also known as Tebego, Etevego or Estevegó.-History:...
, name of Tevego in 1843, a settlement in Paraguay - San Salvador de JujuySan Salvador de JujuySan Salvador de Jujuy , commonly known as Jujuy and locally often referred to as San Salvador, is the capital city of Jujuy Province in northwest Argentina. It lies near the southern end of the Humahuaca Canyon where wooded hills meet the lowlands....
, a city in Argentina - San Salvador (volcano)San Salvador (volcano)The San Salvador Volcano is a stratovolcano situated northwest to the city of San Salvador. The crater has been nearly filled with a relatively newer edifice, the Boquerón volcano....
, in El Salvador - San Salvador F.C.San Salvador F.C.San Salvador Futbol Club was a professional football club located in San Salvador, El Salvador that participated in Primera División de Fútbol Profesional from 2002 to 2008...
, a football (soccer) club of San Salvador - San Salvador, an Australian reggae rock band featuring members of Sounds Like ChickenSounds Like ChickenSounds Like Chicken was a band from Melbourne, Australia released on Boomtown Records which formed in 1999 and disbanded in 2007. They were one of Australia's most well-known ska bands and one of the most popular Christian bands in the country....
- San Salvador (Irish band), an Irish rock band
- San Salvador (Guipúzcoan squadron)San Salvador (Guipúzcoan squadron)The San Salvador was a Spanish galleon of the Spanish Armada as part of the Guipúzcoan squadron.It was damaged and captured as a result of the first encounter of the Armada with the Royal Navy in 1588...
, a ship of the Spanish Armada (in the Guipúzcoan squadron; there was another in the Spanish Armada in a different squadron) - San Salvador, Venice, Chiesa di San Salvatore (of the Holy Saviour), a church in Venice, northern Italy
San Salvador may also be:
- The first island Christopher Columbus reached when he discovered the Americas. See GuanahaniGuanahaniGuanahani was the name the natives gave to the island that Christopher Columbus called San Salvador when he arrived at the Americas. Columbus reached the island on 12 October 1492, the first island he sighted and visited in the Americas...
- Salvator of HortaSalvator of HortaSaint Salvator of Horta is a Roman Catholic saint from the Catalonia province of Spain. His feast day is celebrated on March 18...
(San Salvador), Roman Catholic saint