- Estanzuelas
Estanzuelas is a
municipality in the Usulután department ofEl Salvador .Geography
The municipality is located to the southeast of
San Ildefonso of the department ofSan Vicente , to the north ofMercedes Umaña and to the west of Nueva Granada. Estanzuelas has a total area of 71.73 km² [ [http://www.xist.org/cntry/elsalvador.aspx?levels=Usulutan GeoHive ] ] .History
La Estancia Sola, which was the name of the only
hacienda in the old days, was changed to what is now known as Estanzuelas. The name was changed as the town grew and was eventually divided into six barrios: El Calvario, El Belen, Las Flores, San Antonio, El Centro, and San Pablo.Government
Jose Gonzalo Manzano is the current mayor who was democratically elected in the year2006 and will stay in office for a three-year term. According to the 2001 Census (SIBASI) its population is about 10,000. Its people mainly make their living through agriculture and fishing and from the remittances received from family members in the US.Culture
Many natives of Estanzuelas have migrated to the U.S. where they reside in communities in Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, New York, New Jersey, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Florida, Boston and Los Angeles. Estanzuelas is a small city with few public services. It has a plaza, an open market, a catholic church, a small clinic, a police station and a postal office.
People have to travel for other services such as banking to close towns such as Santiago de Maria and San Miguel.
Among some of the types of food you can savor in Estanzuelas are: tilapia fish, shrimp and fresh-water crab, sardines,
pupusas , quesadillas (baked sweet bread), and atol de elote (young corn oatmeal).References
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