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El Salvador

[ el sal-vuh-dawr; Spanish el sahl-vah-thawr ]

noun

  1. a republic in NW Central America. 13,176 sq. mi. (34,125 sq. km). : San Salvador.


El Salvador

/ ɛl ˈsælvəˌdɔː /

noun

  1. a republic in Central America, on the Pacific: colonized by the Spanish from 1524; declared independence in 1841, becoming a republic in 1856. It consists of coastal lowlands rising to a central plateau. Coffee constitutes over a third of the total exports. Official language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: US dollar. Capital: San Salvador. Pop: 6 108 590 (2013 est). Area: 21 393 sq km (8236 sq miles)
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El Salvador

  1. Republic on the Pacific coast of Central America , bordered to the west by Guatemala , to the north and east by Honduras , and to the south by the Pacific Ocean . San Salvador is its capital and largest city.


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Notes

Torn by civil unrest and characterized by guerrilla warfare and terrorism (which has included the murder of American civilians), El Salvador became in the 1980s a controversial focus of an American foreign policy that sought to protect American interests in Central America. Unrest eased in the 1990s.
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Example Sentences

The acknowledgment of these crimes, which came as part of an amnesty for them, was a cathartic moment for El Salvador.

President of Costa Rica Oscar Arias laid a calming hand on 1980s El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama.

The children are coming from three Central American countries—Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.

And if successful, the program would be extended to refugees in Guatemala and El Salvador.

Around that same time, Rose-Avila returned to El Salvador as regional director for Save the Children.

They blew up another ten miles and the Grass took over El Salvador.

The mid-ventral white stripe characteristic of pullus is present in three of 28 adults from El Salvador.

They call it a “common spring and fall migrant and winter visitant in the lowlands,” of El Salvador.

Three of 28 specimens from El Salvador possess the mid-ventral white stripe.

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