Soyapango

Soyapango on the map of El Salvador

The city Soyapango is a municipality in El Salvador, it is located in the department and in the Área Metropolitana de San Salvador.

Geography

Soyapango is located 7 kilometers east of the center of San Salvador, bounded on the north by the municipalities of Ciudad Delgado and Tonacatepeque, in the south it borders Santo Tomas and San Marcos, in the east it borders the municipality of Ilopango, and to the west by Ciudad Delgado and San Salvador.

Topographic surveys are the Cerro San Jacinto and the Cerro El Mirador. The topography of Soyapango is moving in the south than in the north.

Rivers: Río El Acelhuate, El Río Cañas, Río Tapachula, Río Chantecuán, Río El Sumpa, Río El Sauce y Río El Chagüite. Quebradas: Quebrada El Arenal and Quebrada El Aposento The watercourses are often abused for disposal of solid and liquid toxins, Why they are highly contaminated by industrial effluents and wastes and impacted by domestic wastewater.

The climate equal to that of San Salvador, for which there are studies. It has a year-round warm climate, there are the months of January, February, the coolest months. Temperatures rarely fall below 20 ° C. From late October to late March is the dry season and it rains very little, it's windy and the climate is a bit colder. From April to September is the rainy season in which a particularly near the river floods can occur, it is very warm.

History

In Nahuatl which was spoken by the Pipiles in the area of Soyapango Soyat or Zuya means a palm tree and Pango valley or level.

The Ordenanzas Nuevas Leyes de Barcelona or adopted which included 40 products in Spain on November 20, 1542. With the 11 articles, the Real Audiencia de los Confines Tierra Firme entre (Nicaragua and Guatemala ) was created. The Panel held the royal judges violence and representation as well as the Viceroy in this part of New Spain. In her chosen four Oidores, the senior presided. On January 15, 1543 was Alonso de Maldonado Executive Governor, the other Oidores were Diego de Herrera, Pedro Ramírez de Quinonez and Juan Rogel.

On January 15, 1543 this Real Audiencia de los Confines was Tierra Firme entre in the Ciudad de Gracias a Dios in Honduras, and contracted with 182 places the title Pueblo (village).

In the documents of the place was called the Coyapango today is the center of Municipalities Soyapango.

The first administrative unit of San Antonio del Llano Zoyatpango belonged to Intendency de San Salvador, which, in turn, to the Partido de San Salvador. At that time, the area now El Salvador was divided into 17 such administrative partidos.

On February 7, 1824 before El Salvador was established constitutionally, the territory of the Soyapango Alcaldía Mayor de Sonsonate had been slammed shut.

On June 12, 1824 Juan Manuel Rodríguez Supremo was Director of the newly formed El Salvador. The first Constitution of El Salvador El Salvador was divided into four administrative units: San Salvador, Sonsonate, San Vicente and San Miguel. On the same occasion were the 24 Casrios which had formed 1786-1824 Soyapango upgraded to villages and Soyapango to the municipality. Fernando Figueroa evaluated Soypangon on May 16, 1907 Villa on what was published on May 21, 1907, Diario Oficial.

On January 21, 1969 Fidel Sánchez Hernández evaluated on the Soyapango to Ciudad (city).

Educational institutions

In Soyapango there are 34 public and 14 private schools to private schools include Universidad Don Bosco.

Industry and Trade

In the municipality of Soyapango the most violent industrial activity of El Salvador takes place. There is a food industry, Texitilindurstrie, leather industry, matchstick production, pharmaceutical companies, paint production, detergents production, distilleries, poultry slaughterhouses, paper and cardboard factories, charcoal burning. There are large shopping centers such as Plaza Soyapango Unicentro and Plaza Mundo. Here also operate more than 5,000 people with informal trades they do not meet the lending criteria of the banks and their need to earn a living with street vending. A migration of industrial enterprises in other Municipalities represents a threat, because with them the jobs going, and there are already many unemployed in Soyapango.

Traffic

In Soyapango operate more than 1000 collective transport vehicles. Here happen to the buses in the east of El Salvador. The fleet is estimated to be 50,000 vehicles including private transport. Taxi companies and collective public transport, what the traffic space often overloaded and also takes the air hazardous to health claim.

Fiestas

The patron saint of the church of Nuestra Señora del Rosario is celebrated the first twelve days in October. This includes processions, an economic and crafts fair. A fair with mechanical toys for adults and children.