Puerto El Triunfo

Puerto El Triunfo on the map of El Salvador

Puerto El Triunfo is a port and a municipality in the department of Usulután the west of the Central American nation of El Salvador.

It is located 110 km from San Salvador. The municipality has 60 % of the Bosque salado of El Salvador and 19,074 inhabitants.

History

After the Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez government coup on 21 June 1894, the power, a concession to the installation and operation of a port for 25 years was awarded in the Bahia de Jiquilisco on 6 October 1894. It competed two working groups: Simon Sol, Luis Lopez and Lorenzo Campos, Henry H. Burrell, George F. Thompson, Gustavo Lozano and Emeterio S. Ruano. The guided by Burrell consortium was awarded the contract. The concession fee was 1200 USD per year. Building material for the port could be imported duty - and tax-free, construction workers at the port were not recruited into the army and the telegraph systems of the nation of El Salvador could be used free of charge.

Henry H. Burrell became chairman of the El Triunfo Company Limited, a joint stock company under California law:

In April 1895 the first steamer put off with a cargo of 9000 bags of coffee from Santiago de María of Puerto El Triunfo. Some shareholders complained in a letter to the executive board of the El Triunfo Company Limited that steamship companies refused to take charge in Puerto El Triunfo. This problem has been published by a daily newspaper in San Salvador with the headline, " The first telegram from El Triunfo " and reported, " Today ran El Costa Rica due. Within the territorial waters of the coast is unpleasant, and recommend the captains to mark the environment of the steamer port with buoys " at the moment harbor was doubtful. In the same month it was published, that the Pacific Mail Steamship had refused to proceed to the port, and remained in international waters. A letter from a trade association of San Miguel was released, which asserted that the powerful steamship companies assert that the steamer in certain ports Lüden no freight and argued that the large sandbanks in the Bahia de Jiquilisco the cause may be that the Pacific Mail Steamship has not begun the harbor. The El Triunfo Company Limited offered the steamer El Celia as a tug (ship), which have, according to the El Triunfo Company Limited cost 22,000 pesos. There were doubts as to whether El Celina steamer could tow which were four times greater than themselves, it was reported that El Celia was frequently seen arriving in the port itself in serious problems. It was also reported that an appropriate customs house is missing, which have favored the importation of contraband. The El Triunfo Company Limited had invested heavily, but the movement of goods in the port did not reach the expectations with which the shares were sold to citizens of San Miguel.

Kaffeetaleros of Santiago de Maria were in the same newspaper a reply reprint, in which they pointed out that they were removed and loaded into El Triunfo without delay and without charge goods that to the shareholders honorable citizens of Usulutan, San Muiguel, San Vicente, Cabañas and San Savador belonged and that, even if the investors had doubts about the viability of the port operations in Puerto El Triunfo would continue.

In December 1896, the harbor entrance from the Hydrographic Office of the United States was recorded and created an official map, for which a cost of $ 100,000 was estimated.

On June 10, 1898, a new board of the El Triunfo Company Limited has been selected, to which in addition to Burrell and Ellis Simon Sol belonged, which had previously been competing around the port concession.

The Board met on June 10, 1898 together after the AGM and elected Burrell as chairman, Simon Sol as his representative and Ellis as a cashier. In the following Annual General Meeting on July 31, 1898 one of the directors of El Salvador resigned and was replaced by the election of Luis Lopez, who was also already have been competing for port concession. At a meeting of the Board on the same day Luis Lopez was elected secretary of the AG. In September 1898 Burrell was in San Salvador, as Simon Sol invited to a board meeting at his house in Santiago de Maria and represented him unabgesprochen. For meeting was attended Lopez and Cochella, and it was decided to replace Burrell as chairman by Lopez and Ellis as treasurer by Cochella. On October 14, 1898 Burrell and Ellis were accidentally at a board meeting at which the points of the petition for bankruptcy of El Triunfo Company Limited at the 1st District Court of Santiago De Maria was decided. The complaint was lodged on 19 October 1898 and Mr. Meardi appointed bankruptcy trustee.

On February 13, 1899 post ( media ) was published in the Official Gazette of El Salvador, which convened a general meeting of the El Triunfo Company Limited on 28 February 1899. On 14 February 1899, the government of El Salvador under Tomás Regalado threw the El Triunfo Company Limited against breach of contract and left the harbor of Puerto El Triunfo close by decree. U.S. shareholders are that the U.S. government under William McKinley the interests of Asunto Burrell made ​​it their own and through diplomatic channels presented their demands to the government of El Salvador succeeded.

The Government of the United States and El Salvador agreed to three arbitrators:

Samuel Henry Strong, Jacob McGavock Dickinson and MP José Rosa Pacas, from Santa Ana (El Salvador) in El Salvador

The two first laid on May 8, 1902 before her majority judgment, it recognized the following compensation claims:

The U.S. government had sued for payment of $ 523,178.64, the majority judges recognized $ 523,188.64 to.

Economy

From the fishing industry in Puerto El Triunfo, the PEZCA SA, the de Mariscos El Salvador and the Atarraya SA has ceased its operations in the harbor.

Policy

2005 was José Emilio Flores Partido Demócrata Cristiano Mayor

Islands in the Bahia de Jiquilisco

• Corral de Mulas,
• Espiritu Santo,
• Madresal,
• Peninsula San Juan del Gozo