Sacacoyo
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It is catalogued under the topic Municipalities of the La Libertad Department (El Salvador).
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Country
- El Salvador
- Population
- 15915
- Area
- 25.22
- Elevation
- 662
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Image
- Sacacoyo Parque Central 2012.jpg
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Sacacoyo is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador.
==History== The name Sacacoyo comes from the Nahua phrase "En el camino de coyotes y zacate" (in the path of coyotes and grass) In 1890, Sacacoyo had a population of 1,870 people. In 1905, Sacacoyo was combined as part of Tepecoyo, but on 11 May 1907 was recreated as Sacacoyo by legislative decree.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sacacoyo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations