Home Site Index Customer Service Shop MAGAZINES: National Traveler Adventure NG Kids NG Explorer TV AND FILM: Channel (U.S.) Channel (Intl) Explorer GUIDES: Adventure and Animals and History and Maps and News Photography Travel For Kids For Students For Teachers Complete Site Complete Site Index Subscribe Shop Shop the Map Store ... Country Profiles El Salvador Republic of El Salvador View Dynamic Map View Atlas Plate Printable Outline Map CIA World Factbook Entry Left-wing guerrillas signed a peace accord with the government in 1992, ending a brutal 12-year civil war in the smallest, most industrialized, and most densely populated nation in Central America. An estimated 75,000 citizens were killed during the unrest that was fueled by human rights abuses, inequitable land distribution, and a limping economy. With the cease-fire came fresh hopes for economic prosperity and a stronger democracy. Nine-tenths of Salvadorans are of mixed Spanish-Indian stock. They farm so intensively that coffee plantations extend even to the craters of volcanoes, and only 3 percent of the nation remains forested. In 1986 an earthquake devastated the capital, leaving more than 200,000 homeless. Text source: National Geographic Atlas of the World, Seventh Edition | |
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