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Place details
- Locality
- Sonsonate
- Region
- Sonsonate
- Country
- El Salvador
- Population
- 59,468
- Timezone
- America/El_Salvador
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- El Salvador
- Department
- Sonsonate
- Total
- 232.53 km (89.78 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 246 m (807 ft)
- Density
- 310.64/km (804.55/sq mi)
- Seat city
- 65,153
- Time zone
- UTC-6
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- El Salvador
- Population
- 72233
- Area
- 232.5
- Elevation
- 220
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Official website
- www.alcaldiadesonsonate.gob.sv/amso
- Image
- Catedral de Sonsonate.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Sonsonate
- inception
- 1553-05-28
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- network switch
via Wikidata · CC0
Travel guide
Understand
The economy of Sonsonate is mainly based on coffee, dairy products, and the largest sugar plant in the country.
Get in
Chicken buses are the easiest and cheapest way to get around in El Salvador. From the Terminal Occidente in San Salvador, take the Ruta 205 bus toward Sonsonate (usually painted a shade of dark aqua green). The trip will take over 2 hours and costs about US$2.
See
thumb|Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
Go next
Ruta de las Flores San Salvador Acajutla
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)