* In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in The Bahamas.

* José Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez, former Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.

* San Ildefonso, San Vicente, a municipality in El Salvador.

During his first voyage in 1492, instead of reaching Japan as he had intended, Columbus landed in the Bahamas archipelago, at a locale he named San Salvador.

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San Salvador was destroyed in 1756 and 1854, and suffered heavy damage in the 1919, 1982, and 1986 tremors.

San Salvador is representative of the central plateau, with an annual average temperature of and absolute high and low readings of, respectively.

The total cost of the damage was estimated at between $ 1. 5 billion and $ 2 billion, and the devastation thought to equal or surpass that of the 1986 quake that struck San Salvador.

Telecommunications in El Salvador are centered primarily around the capital, San Salvador.

* Mexico has an embassy in San Salvador.

The Central American Integration System ( SICA ) was expected to adopt a co-ordinated position on the issue at its summit in San Salvador on 18 August.

* 1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.

* 1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.

Pedro de Alvarado and Cristóbal de Olid at the command of Hernán Cortés, came from Guatemala through San Salvador and Honduras.

Territorial disputes with Colombia over the Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank ; with respect to the maritime boundary question in the Golfo de Fonseca, the ICJ referred to the line determined by the 1900 Honduras-Nicaragua Mixed Boundary Commission and advised that some tripartite resolution among El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua likely would be required ; maritime boundary dispute with Honduras in the Caribbean Sea ; Nicaragua is sovereign over the Rio San Juan, and by treaty Costa Rica has the right to navigate over part of the river with ' objects of commerce '.

* 1811 – Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rang the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement

But Costa Rica protested that Costa Rican rights to the San Juan River had been infringed, and El Salvador maintained that the proposed naval base would affect both it and Honduras.

* 1986 – An earthquake measuring 7. 5 on the Richter Scale strikes San Salvador, El Salvador, killing an estimated 1, 500 people.

Pyramids have occasionally been used in Christian architecture of the feudal era, e. g. as the tower of Oviedo's Gothic Cathedral of San Salvador.

The UNCCD has 194 country Parties: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

* 199 km < sup > 2 </ sup > -- Municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico

The San Salvador Municipality is divided into Districts.

South of the San Salvador Municipality lies the Cordillera del Balsamo ( Balsam Mountain Range ).

East of the Municipality lies the San Jacinto Hill and the Ilopango Lake Caldera, not only the largest body of water near the capital but the largest natural body of water in the country, 72 km2 or 28 sq.

It is composed of 16 cities, namely Manila, Caloocan, Las Piñas, Makati, Malabon, Mandaluyong, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Pasay, Pasig, Parañaque, Quezon City, San Juan, Taguig, and Valenzuela, and the Municipality of Pateros.

* Quartiere San Lorenzo, part of the Third Municipality of Rome

Maabay while the temporary seat of Government of the Municipality of San Lorenzo is at Brgy.

Desde 1770 the central parish of the city ( located where the cathedral was built later ) was the head of the parish of Santa Ana. 44 From the year 1786-1824 was the head of the party or Santa Ana district, which was part of the Municipality San Salvador.

The remaining twenty seven percent ( 27 %) lowlying terrain and rolling lands are found at the southwestern portion of the municipality, along with the northern portions of the Municipality of San Mateo.

* Park the Gallineral of San Gil, Canotaje in the Rio Fonce beginning the route in the Valley municipality of San Jose and Finishing it in the Municipality of San Gil.

On May 14, 1996, the Sangguniang Bayan of San Fernando passed Resolution No. 20 requesting the House of Representatives, Congress of the Philippines for the conversion of the Municipality of San Fernando into a Component City.

Upon the sponsorship of the Congressman Victor F. Ortega ( 1st District-La Union ) at the House of Representatives, House Bill 7594 ( Act Converting the Municipality of San Fernando, La Union into a Component City to be known as City of San Fernando ) was approved.

An Act converting the Municipality of San Fernando, La Union, into a Component City to be known as the City of San Fernando.

In 1835, he represented the Columbia Municipality at the Consultation in San Felipe de Austin, where he was chosen by the members to serve in the General Council of the Provisional Government of Texas.

San Pedro, or officially known as the Municipality of San Pedro () is a first class highly-urbanized municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines.

On June 16, 2007, voters in San Juan ratified the conversion of the municipality into a highly urbanised city, pursuant to Republic Act No. 9388 (" An Act Converting the Municipality of San Juan into a Highly Urbanized City to be known as the City of San Juan ").

By all accounts a peaceful tribe, the Tataviam were Christianized under the San Fernando Mission.

* 1672-A chieftain on Guam kills Jesuit missionary Diego Luis de San Vitores and his Visayan assistant, Pedro Calungsod, for having baptized the chief's daughter without his permission ( some accounts do say the girl's mother consented to the baptism )

In 2002, MBNA purchased the credit card accounts of Working Assets of San Francisco, California When asked about this, Working Assets ' employees have made differing claims.

Ostional, a pueblo in the municipality of San Juan del Sur in the Rivas Department of the southwest region of Nicaragua, by accounts of multiple testimonials in the local region, was founded by their ancestors because of an abundant conch population at the sea shore.

By some accounts, the Florencia ( or Florida, or San Francisco ), a member of the defeated Spanish Armada fleeing the English fleet in 1588, anchored in Tobermory to take on provisions.

San Miguel revamped the selling and distribution organization resulting in higher distribution efficiency, improved coverage of key accounts, greater pricing stability and reduced overall costs.

The Mercury News encompasses all other Bay Area newspapers owned by Media News Group, including the Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, Marin Independent Journal, San Mateo County Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and 10 other local daily newspapers, each of which are branded as " an edition of the San Jose Mercury News ," which accounts for the newspaper's high circulation.

Manufacturing now accounts for nearly 20 % of San Juan's production output.

Several accounts claim that McMahon had originally proposed that Hart drop the title at December's In Your House pay-per-view in Springfield, Massachusetts, or at January's Royal Rumble in San Jose, California.

Bacon was born in San Jose, California, the son of actor Frank Bacon, later the co-author and star of the long-running Broadway show " Lightnin '" ( 1918 ), and Jennie ( Weidman ) Bacon ( he was not, contrary to some accounts, related to actor Irving Bacon, although he did direct him in a number of his films ).

Until written accounts were found, Cat Island was thought to be Guanahani or San Salvador, the first island Christopher Columbus arrived at in the Americas.

Although accounts are now seldom provided for free to journalists, there are still a sizable number on The WELL ; for example columnist Jon Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle, Wendy M. Grossman of The Inquirer, and critic Andy Klein of Los Angeles CityBeat.

In 1938 he entered Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco, according to newspaper accounts, desperately ill.

He left two separate journalism positions, Nevada ( 1864 ) fleeing a challenge to duel and San Francisco fleeing outraged police officials, because his satire and fiction were often taken for the truthful accounts they were presented as.

The chapel at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was designed by Father Antonio Cruzado who hailed from Córdoba, Spain which accounts for the Mission's strong Islamic architecture | Moorish influence.

There are accounts of trying to drag the a four foot San Isidro Labrador statue out the temple and the statue would not fit out the door.

The description of present-day Limasawa does not fit the geologic, geographic, geomorphologic, archaeologic, histriographic categories of Mazaua as described and explained in the eyewitness chronicles of Antonio Pigafetta, Ginés de Mafra, Francisco Albo, The Genoese Pilot, Martín de Ayamonte, as well as the secondhand accounts of Antonio de Brito, Andrés de San Martín, Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, and Maximilianus Transylvanus.

This character was first mentioned in a description of the beliefs of the native peoples who were associated with the Mission San Juan Capistrano in accounts written by the Franciscan missionary Jerónimo Boscana in the 1820s.

San Vitores had baptized Mata ' pang's newborn daughter without the chief's permission ; Mata ' pang's wife consented to the baptism according to some accounts.