Santa Ana Depairtment

Santa Ana is a depairtment o El Salvador in the northwast o the kintra. The caipital is Santa Ana, ane o the lairgest ceeties in El Salvador. It haes 2,023 km² an a population o ower 572,000. The Santa Ana Volcano is in this depairtment.

Santa Ana
Depairtment
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Location athin El Salvador
Coordinates: 14°05′24″N 89°30′40″W
Kintra	El Salvador
Creatit (gien current status)	1855
Seat	Santa Ana
Area
• Total	2023.2 km2 (781.2 sq mi)
Area rank	Rankit 4t
Population
• Total	572,081
• Rank	Rankit 3rd
• Density	280/km2 (730/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−6 (CST)
ISO 3166 code	SV-SA

History

This depairtment wis creatit on 8 Februar 1855.

Durin Pre-Columbie times, the aurie nou componin Santa Ana wis inhabitit bi Mayan fowks; amang the depairtment's major Mayan airchaeological steids are Tazumal an Casa Blanca. Mony o the region's inhabitants wur members o the Poqomam or Ch'orti' Mayan subgroups.

Atween 1200 an 1400 the depairtment o Santa Ana unner Lempa River wis conquered bi the Pipils. Atween 1528 an 1540 the depairtment o Santa Ana wis conquered an pacifee'd bi the Spaniards. It belangit tae the Greater Mayorship o San Salvador an later tae the Intendance o San Salvador, bein dividit in the pairties or destricts o Santa Ana an Metapán.

Frae 1824 (year in which the Greater Mayorship o Sonsonate an Intendance o San Salvador unifee'd) it belangit tae the depairtment o Sonsonate. The depairtment wis creatit in 1855, alang wi the present depairtment o Ahuachapán.

Geografie

The depairtment o Santa Ana is at a altitude atween 500 m an 3000 m. The maist important volcanoes are the Ilamatepec or Santa Ana Volcano an the Chingo. Ither notable muntains are Green Hill an the Montecristo massif. The main rivers o the depairtment are the Lempa an the Guajoyo rivers.

The maist important lochs in the depairtment are Loch Güija on the border wi Guatemala near Metapán, an Loch Coatepeque which is in the soothren pairt o the depairtment.

Municipalities

Santa Ana is dividit intae 13 municipalities:

Municipality	Territory	Population
Candelaria de la Frontera	91.13 km²	33,550 hab.
Chalchuapa	165.76 km²	86,200 hab.
Coatepeque	126.85 km²	48,544 hab.
El Congo	91.43 km²	22,274 hab.
El Porvenir	52.52 km²	7,819 hab.
Masahuat	71.23 km²	5,125 hab.
Metapán	668.36 km²	59,499 hab.
San Antonio Pajonal	51.92 km²	4,574 hab.
San Sebastián Salitrillo	42.32 km²	16,688 hab.
Santa Ana	400.05 km²	261,568 hab.
Santa Rosa Guachipilín	38.41 km²	7,909 hab.
Santiago de la Frontera	44.22 km²	9,150 hab.
Texistepeque	178.97 km²	20,904 hab.

References

• Directorio Municipal de la Fundación Dr. Guillermo Manuel Ungo Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
• El Salvador at GeoHive Archived 2016-09-28 at the Wayback Machine