Welcome to My page 2 On El Salvador

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 Salvador's name still evokes images of the brutal civil war fought
                        throughout the 1980s in its tangle of mountains and farmlands. The war,
                        however, is over and the most turbulent aspect of El Salvador today is
                        thankfully just its volcanic landscape.

El Salvador's capital and largest city lies in a valley at the foot of the large
                        San Salvador volcano. It's not the prettiest place in the world since the
                        valley is a pollution trap which perfectly captures the city's horrendous
                        traffic effluvium. The rural migration and the declining economy during the
                        war expanded the urban poor, and unemployment is still around 50%.
                        Shanty towns abound and the streets are lined with people selling
                        everything from bruised fruit to Velcro gun holsters just to get by.

San Salvador was founded at its present site in 1546 and has been the
                        capital of El Salvador since 1839. Despite its long history, there are no
                        old buildings to see since the accident-prone city has been destroyed
                        many times - by earthquakes in 1854 and 1873, by the most recent
                        eruption of the San Salvador volcano in 1917 and by floods in 1934. An
                        earthquake in 1986 caused considerable damage, and reconstruction is
                        still going on.