Nahuizalco

Nahuizalco is a municipality inside the Sonsonate branch of El Salvador. It lies on the vegetation path, 9 km from Sonsonate and seventy four km from San Salvador, at 540 m above sea degree at the southern part of the Apaneca-Ilamatepec mountain range. Per the populace and housing census of 2007, Nahuizalco has forty 9,081 residents.

There are sturdy indigenous customs. Its call in Nahuatl language approach "vicinity of 4 Izalcos "; by using lifestyle, it became based by using 4 families from the nearby city of Izalco. It is famous for its wicker and tule handcrafts. Nauhizalco is a village of pre-Hispanic beginning. It turned into firstly inhabited by using the pipil human beings, and in colonial times, the place changed into part of the Izalco providence. A chronicle in 1586 anticipated that there have been much less than 200 people living in Nahuizalco. In 1771, a letter from Pedro Cortes y Larraz, archbishop of the Guatemalan diocese, Nahuizalco is named as the top of the parish of "Nahuisalco". The parish joined 3 church buildings, specifically Santa Catharina Masahuat, San Pedro Putxla, and Santo Domingo Huitzampam, and had a herd of farm animals.