Jiquilisco

Jiquilisco is a municipality within the department of Usulutan, El Salvador. According to the reputable census of 2007, it has a population of forty seven,784 inhabitants. The city of Jiquilisco is of Lenca beginning. By 1550 it become an vital agreement, as it had about a thousand citizens. In the 18th century, in step with Pedro Cortes and Larraz, there had been approximately 451 humans. It belonged at that point to the celebration of Usulután.

In a police record made by the inspector of police of the department of San Miguel, Manuel Zepeda, made on June 14, 1847, made to the governor of San Miguel, J. Avila, it turned into stated that he ordered fencing, so that the site visitors of the farm animals do not dry them, the sources from which they drink water. He noticed that the livestock brought about damages inside the temple, city hall, faculty and personal homes and because of this he ordered to surround all the town on the fee of the livestock proprietors. The municipality covers an area of ​​429.99 km² and the headland has an altitude of forty meters above sea level.