Introduction
The country is located in the tropics.
The average annual temperature is about seventy-three degrees
.
The rainy season is between the months of May and October.The
yearly rainfall amounts are about sixty inches in the central
area and in the interior lands, and along the coast around eighty-five
inches.
In the central highlands, the climate is very healthy and steady.Along
the Pacific coast it is often hot and humid.
The country of El Salvador
was known as the Land of Volcanoes.On
occasion, there will be destructive earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions.
El Salvador is the smallest Central American country.It's
the only Central American country that doesn't have a coastline
on the Caribbean Sea.
The country does not have
rich mineral supplies. However, they do have
small amounts of gypsum, limestone, pumice, hydropower and geothermal
energy.
They were highly cultured people.
They prayed to the sun and the moon, also they prayed to other
gods. For example, they prayed to the corn god and to the rain
god.
The Maya were conquered by the Spanish in the early 1500's
The Pipils were discovered by the Spaniards when they arrived
in the sixteenth century.They
didn't have as advanced a culture as the Maya.
They worshiped the corn and the rain gods and they also carried
out religious ceremonies for these gods.
They were very skilled in architecture, astronomy, and crafts
such as weaving, pottery, stone carving, and making gold and silver
items.El
Salvador has is a strong religious society.
The religion, Catholicism, is the most prominent religion in El
Salvador.About
eighty percent of Salvadorons are Catholic.
The church services support variety of people that are poor or
the people who were displaced from their community.El Salvador has only recently ended a terrible civil war that cost the nation dearly. El Salvador's civil war spread into other parts of Central America, too. Thousands of Salvadoran peasants fled to Honduras to escape the terror from fighting between the FMLN guerrillas and the army. It is estimated that about two million Salvadorans live outside the country, having been displaced by the civil war.
The war in El Salvador had two levels. The first level was the war between the military and the FMLN and its supporters. Then the other level was called the "sinister level", using death squads. The death squads were paramilitary troops. Their job was to terrorize the population so that they would be afraid to support the FMLN. For them to accomplish this goal, they marched to the countryside and killed members of the peasantry at random. Most of the time the military would come into their house during the night and take away one or more family members. The number of FMLN people killed was twenty thousand.
The common place the death squads will target was the Church. The most famous attack by the death squads were in December of 1980. There was four churchwomen from the U.S. who helped a good deed to the peasantry, the death squads raped and murdered them because of their work.
Then finally, after thirteen years of war, the peace was negotiated in El Salvador in 1993. For the most part the activities of the death squads were stopped, however there is still violence going on.
A movie/picture collage of El Salvador A
woman shares her terrifying story of survival A
Brief summary of the situation in El Salvador Soldiers
that came to town to kill
