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The Department of State considers El Salvador a critical crime threat country which means that conditions exist such that a continuous serious threat for crime, forced entries, and assaults on residents are common. In 2011, El Salvador had the second highest murder rate in the world, at 71 per 100,000 people (by comparison, the murder rate in Massachusetts, with a similar geographical area and population, was 2.6 per 100,000). In 2012, a truce between El Salvador’s two principal street gangs may have contributed to a decline in the homicide rate. According to Salvadoran police statistics, the number of murders for 2012 decreased by 41% from 2011. However, the sustainability of the decline is unclear. In addition, the number of reported robberies, assaults, rapes, and missing persons showed significant increases in 2012, and most of these crimes go unsolved.

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l Salvador's landscape offers three general regions, a narrow Pacific coastal belt, a central plateau, which is almost surrounded by active volcanoes, and the northern lowlands, formed by the wide Lempa River Valley. Its highest point is Cerro El Pital with 2,730 m.

Terrain: Mountains separate country into three ...

Location: Central America, bordering the North ...

Capital City: San Salvador ...

Official Name: República de El Salvador

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EL salvador longitude and latitude -is 3.7942° N, 88.8965° W

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Guatemala City, Guatemala - For decades, Raul de Jesus Gomez fought for justice for his brother Ramiro, killed in a 1982 massacre in northern Guatemala. Now, he is fighting to keep the perpetrators behind bars.

The year Gomez was born marked the beginning of the 1960-1996 civil war between the army and leftist guerrilla forces. He was just a young child when his family moved to Dos Erres, a farming community in the Peten department. By the time Gomez was in his 20s, the military's scorched-earth campaign was in full swing.

All told, the armed conflict left 200,000 dead and 45,000 disappeared. According to a United Nations-backed truth commission, military forces carried out acts of genocide in several indigenous Mayan regions.

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Spanish, Nahua , among some Amerindians.

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El Salvador GOVERNMENT is a presidential republic

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El Salvador has a tropical climate  with pronounced wet and dry seasons. temperatures vary primarily with elevation and show little seasonal change. The Pacific lowlands are uniformly hot and humid; the central plateau and mountain areas are more moderate.

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Central America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and Honduras.  and EL salvador is san salvador.

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Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 36%, other 2%, none 12% (2014 est.)

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FOOD this is what people eat in EL salvador
Pupusas: thick corn tortillas stuffed with cheese, meat, squash, and/or other fillings. ...
Empanadas: flour pastries filled with meat, potatoes and/or cheese. ...

Tamales: boiled pockets of corn dough, stuffed with meat or sweet corn and served in banana leaves.

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1 Do you Know El Salvador is known as the Land of Volcanoes.
2  It has frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity.
3  El Salvador is the only country in Central America that does not have a coastline on the Caribbean Sea.
4  Coffee, sugar, corn, rice, shrimp, and beef are the main agricultural products in El Salvador.
5

High in the mountains, at the 7,931-foot (2,417-meter) summit of Monte Cristo Mountain, is a cloud forest in the international nature preserve of El Trifinio.

6 Did  you Know that El Salvador has the third largest economy in Central America (behind Costa Rica and Panama).