Tenancingo, Cuscatlán
Encyclopedia
Tenancingo is a municipality
in the Cuscatlán
department
of El Salvador
.
It is located approximately 15 kilometers from the deviation of the Pan-American Highway
from which it is accessed via a paved road. (Approximately 2-3 kilometers of that road are gravel).
The date of first settlement is uncertain but numerous indigenous artefacts have been found that indicate that the site of the present Tenancingo was populated by Pipil Indians in Pre-Columbian times.
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 Cuscatlán
Cuscatlán Department
Cuscatlán is a department of El Salvador, located in the center of the country. With a surface area of , it is El Salvador's smallest department. It is inhabited by over 200,000 people. Cuscatlán or Cuzcatlán was the name the original inhabitants of the Western part of the country gave to most of...
department
Departments of El Salvador
||A list of the departments of El Salvador in alphabetical order.Department :# Ahuachapán # Cabañas # Chalatenango # Cuscatlán # La Libertad # La Paz...
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...
.
It is located approximately 15 kilometers from the deviation of the Pan-American Highway
Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway is a network of roads measuring about in total length. Except for an rainforest break, called the Darién Gap, the road links the mainland nations of the Americas in a connected highway system. According to Guinness World Records, the Pan-American Highway is the world's...
from which it is accessed via a paved road. (Approximately 2-3 kilometers of that road are gravel).
The date of first settlement is uncertain but numerous indigenous artefacts have been found that indicate that the site of the present Tenancingo was populated by Pipil Indians in Pre-Columbian times.