Different touristic places, in the same country

History of jayaque

Jayaque is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador. According to the 2007 census, Jayaque has a population of 11,058. It covers an area of approximately 18.5 square miles (48 km2) and has an altitude of 3,215 feet (980 m) at its highest elevation. The Nahuatl place-name Jayaque, Shaycat or Xayacatepeque, translates to "Hill of the masked" or "Hill of the masks or of the enamored ones."

Jayaque has traditionally based its economy on coffee production. The town is surrounded by coffee plantations, and there are a number of coffee production facilities in these plantations where fresh coffee is processed and beans are made ready for export.

As is true across El Salvador, most of Jayaque's residents are Catholic. Celebrations are held every year in July to honor Jayaque's patron saint, Saint Christopher. Together with their nearby sister community of Cuisnahuat and the residents of Tepecoyo, the people of Jayaque celebrate the Festival of "Los Cumpas" (a colloquialism designated to represent the companionship between sister cities). Some Protestant churches have also been established, however, with the most significant growth of Protestantism occurring during and after the civil war.

The Lutheran Church, very small in El Salvador, has churches in Jayaque and in the nearby community of Dos de Mayo, which is officially a part of Jayaque. These churches are sponsored by the Lutheran Church of Penzberg, Bavaria, Germany as well as through relationships with churches in the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in southeast Wisconsin, USA. For many years, the pastors of the churches in Jayaque (Pan de Vida ILS) and Dos de Mayo (Montes de Penzberg ILS) were Francisco and Jesus Carrillo. The Carrillos were murdered 4 November 2006 just outside the church in Dos de Mayo after leading worship service there, and are considered by many to be martyrs. Investigation into the murders was discontinued in 2008 due to concerns the investigation itself might be contributing to additional violence. Gang violence and politically motivated assassination are plausible theories. Pastor Blanca Irma Rodriguez was called to replace the Carrillos following their assassination.

San Vicente

San Vicente is the capital city of the homonym municipality and department in El Salvador. It was founded in 1635 and became the state capital between 1834 and 1840 when El Salvador was part of the Federal Republic of Central America, this was because San Salvador became the federal capital. During the Spanish colonization, it was one of the most important towns of the Intendancy of San Salvador.

The municipality of San Vicente covers an area of ​​267.25 km and the headland has an altitude of 390 meters above sea level. According to the official census of 2007, it has a population of 53,213 habitants. The festivities are celebrated in the month of December in honor of San Vicente Abad y Martir. There are also public holidays on January 15 in honor of Señor de Esquipulas, and from October 25 to November 3, for the "Feria de todos los santos". The town is located on the right bank of the Acahuapa River.

• Basilica de nuestra señora del pilar:

According to an anecdote, in the middle of the 18th century the marriage of José Merino and Mrs. Manuela de Arce lived in the city. One day, and by an attack of jealousy, the wife tried to stab Jose Merino three times. However, at the same time that the aggressions occur, an image of the Lady of the Pillar began to shake which prevented the committing of the murder.

It was in the last attempt that Manuela recovers the trial. Due to the event, Don José ordered to build a chapel in honor of the Virgin, but did not see the work culminated by his death. 

It would be his wife who would continue the construction. Finally the hermitage passed into the hands of Don Francisco Quintanilla who built a more sumptuous temple that was begun in 1762 and premiered in 1769. However, Quintanilla died two years before its completion. On March 4, 1838, the remains of Salvadoran hero José Simeón Cañas were buried inside the temple. The church was declared a National Monument in February 1953. In the first decade of the 21st century, it was subjected to repairs to its structure due to the damage caused by the passage of time and the earthquakes of 2001.

• San Vicente Tower or San Vicente Clock Tower.

San Vicente until 1928 had a large plaza in the center of the city; it is known that the process that concludes with the existence of the tower, arose with the idea of ​​making a kiosk of the group of Vincentians of “sociedad ideal de obreros”  by mid-1923, so that the artists of the time, poets, declamators and especially the music orchestras, and that the vicentians could enjoy a beautiful recreation

In March 1927 Dr. Pío Romero Bosque was elected President of the Republic, and he, upon hearing the case, by October of that year, gave the city the privilege of having a monument for perpetuity, and that was how the construction of the tower was ordered.

On February 1, 1928, the construction of the kiosk tower in the center of Cañas Park was started, it was a question of building a small tower to place the public clock of the city, there were opinions of some to get up in the building of the cabildo, outside the park, which was not accepted, the tower had to be placed on the kiosk that was planned to build in the park several people among them those in charge of the work presented a magnificent drawing of a tower-kiosk of his invention, which It earned him the approval of the art connoisseurs

The construction of the work began in February 1928 and ended in 1930. This high-engineering work for the time with a height of 40 meters, endured the earthquake of December 19, 1936 and then the earthquake of January 13, 2001, but not so the earthquake on the morning of February 13, 2001 exactly one month after the January, the tower was damaged a lot and had to be demolished to be rebuilt at a cost of 1 million dollars including the new clock.

The old clock of the Vincentian tower was built in Germany and brought by ship at a cost of 7 thousand colones, the clock came to the country to be installed on top of the monument in 1930, had black numbers and chimed every hour for almost ten years After its last attack, the tower rises again pointing to the sky as it did the day of its first inauguration 80 years ago, it has been placed a new clock brought from Mexico by air, at a cost of US $ 32 thousand. installation took 7 days just before its inauguration on December 26, 2009.

• Amapulapa.

The name in Nahuatl means: "Rió donde los amates se hunden". And it is located near the city of San Vicente, 60 kilometers east of San Salvador.

This recreational area has an extension of 33 manzanas and the richness of this natural park is found in its volcanic soil dominated by ash and lava. In it many springs of water emerge from which the same is nourished, the flora is characterized by the Amates, which embellish the place.