Colón, La Libertad | |
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Municipality | |
Coordinates: 13°43′N 89°22′W / 13.717°N 89.367°W | |
Country | El Salvador |
Department | La Libertad |
Area | |
• Total | 32.45 sq mi (84.05 km2) |
Elevation | 1,870 ft (570 m) |
Population | |
• Total | 96,989 |
Time zone | UTC-6 ( CST) |
Colón is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador.
Colón is surrounded by the municipalities of Santa Tecla, Quezaltepeque, San Juan Opico, Ciudad Arce, and Sacacoyo y Talnique. The municipality was previously known as El Guarumal, and was made a town on 20 August 1886, and a village (villa) on 24 July 1986.
The municipality is bordered by various cantons:
Colón has Los Chorros (a bathing resort) which was destroyed in the 2001 earthquake, but reopened in March 2008.[ citation needed]
The city was considered to be one of the most dangerous in the country, reporting various homicides and notorious activity of gangs, locally called maras’.[ citation needed]