Puerto El Triunfo
Encyclopedia
Puerto El Triunfo is a municipality
in the Usulután
department
of El Salvador
Beginning as a coffee
trade port
, Puerto El triunfo was founded in 1875 as a need for the exportation of the coffee industry in northern Usulután
. This city is located in the south of the department, with an increasing tourism rate, it is the most visited touristic place in the department of Usulután due to its Jiquilisco Bay
and the modern ways of transportation around the bay. Most people in Puerto El Triunfo live from seafood
trade and tourism.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the Usulután
Usulután Department
Usulután from the Nawat language is a department of El Salvador in the southeast of the country . The capital is Usulután.It is El Salvador's largest department...
department
Departments of El Salvador
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of El Salvador
El Salvador
El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...
Coffee
Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
trade port
Port
A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land....
, Puerto El triunfo was founded in 1875 as a need for the exportation of the coffee industry in northern Usulután
Usulután
Usulután is the 5th largest city in El Salvador, and capital of the Department of Usulutan in the south-east of El Salvador. As of 2006, it is estimated to have population of 71,636 people.Usulutan rests in a rich agricultural valley....
. This city is located in the south of the department, with an increasing tourism rate, it is the most visited touristic place in the department of Usulután due to its Jiquilisco Bay
Jiquilisco Bay
Jiquilisco Bay is a bay off the southern coast of El Salvador, in the Usulután Department, at ....
and the modern ways of transportation around the bay. Most people in Puerto El Triunfo live from seafood
Seafood
Seafood is any form of marine life regarded as food by humans. Seafoods include fish, molluscs , crustaceans , echinoderms . Edible sea plants, such as some seaweeds and microalgae, are also seafood, and are widely eaten around the world, especially in Asia...
trade and tourism.