Ilobasco

Ilobasco is a municipality within the Cabanas department of El Salvador. it's miles positioned 30 miles northeast of the capital, San Salvador. This metropolis is known national for its clay craftsmanship or pottery. The clay is extracted and organized domestically. The clay paintings includes the "miniatures", which can be small representations of daily scenes as lived through Salvadorans, no bigger than 2 inches tall. The metropolis is also home for 2d division soccer team El Roble.

One version of the miniatures are the "surprises", which can be basically a scene covered with any other piece of clay fashioned and painted within the shape of a fruit, an egg, a residence or other things. the cover can be removed after which the scene can be seen. The actual foundation and that means of its call is unknown, most of the proposed names are nahuatl, consisting of: Xilohuako, Xilotlaxko, Xilotazoko. A document found on December 1859 affirms that the name is native and it approach "Golden Thread" however starting place of this phrase is unknown.