La Libertad

La Libertad is a municipality inside the La Libertad Department of El Salvador. It had a populace of 35,997 inhabitants in 2007 according to the legitimate census of that year. It is one of the major traveller attractions within the U.S. In 1770 this region became noted by means of Pedro Cortes, the Archbishop of Guatemala, as the "hacienda Tepeahua", considered one of the most important estates within the parish of San Jacinto. The vicinity changed into called Tepeahua, a call derived from a Nahuatl expression which means "mountain of the O.K.Trees", earlier than the Congress of the Federal Republic of Central America legal the call "Puerto de La Libertad" on February 24, 1824.

The country wide assembly chartered industrial change on the Pacific coast in 1831, and the primary steamboat arrived at La Libertad on June 7, 1857. La Libertad turned into integrated as a village through an Executive decree of July 19, 1858, which became authorized through the Congress on February eleven, 1859. This became executed to relieve the community's excessive dependence on the town of Huizucar, located at a giant distance and connected by way of awful roads.