Colón, La Libertad

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Municipality in La Libertad, El Salvador

Colón, La Libertad

Municipality

The entrance to Colón via the Pan-American Highway

Colón, La Libertad

Location in El Salvador

Coordinates: 13°43′N 89°22′W﻿ / ﻿13.717°N 89.367°W﻿ / 13.717; -89.367
Country|  El Salvador
Department| La Libertad
Area

• Total| 32.45 sq mi (84.05 km2)
Elevation

| 1,870 ft (570 m)
Population

• Total| 96,989
Time zone| UTC-6 (CST)

Colón is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador.

Colón is surrounded by the municipalities of Santa Tecla, Quezaltepeque, San Juan Opico, Ciudad Arce, and Sacacoyo y Talnique. The municipality was previously known as El Guarumal, and was made a town on 20 August 1886, and a village (villa) on 24 July 1986.

## Cantons[edit]

The municipality is bordered by various cantons:

* Botoncillal
* Cobanal
* Cuyagualo
* El Capulín
* El Limón
* El Manguito
* Entre Ríos
* Hacienda Nueva
* Las Angosturas
* Las Brisas
* Las Moras
* Lourdes

## Tourism[edit]

Colón has Los Chorros (a bathing resort) which was destroyed in the 2001 earthquake, but reopened in March 2008.[citation needed]

## Security[edit]

The city was considered to be one of the most dangerous in the country, reporting various homicides and notorious activity of gangs, locally called maras’.[citation needed]

## Gallery[edit]

* Entrance to Los Chorros

* The Canton of Lourdes

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La Libertad

Capital: Santa Tecla

Municipalities|

* Antiguo Cuscatlán
* Chiltiupán
* Ciudad Arce
* Colón
* Comasagua
* Huizúcar
* Jayaque
* Jicalapa
* La Libertad
* Nuevo Cuscatlán
* Quezaltepeque
* Sacacoyo
* San José Villanueva
* San Juan Opico
* San Matías
* San Pablo Tacachico
* Santa Tecla
* Talnique
* Tamanique
* Teotepeque
* Tepecoyo
* Zaragoza

Geography|

* El Boquerón National Park
* San Salvador Volcano

Landmarks|

* Joya de Cerén
* San Andrés
* Sunset Park

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