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Chalatenango, El Salvador is a municipality located in the department of Chalatenango in the North of El Salvador ==The Municipality== Chalatenango is a department, a municipality, and a city (the capital of the Department of Chalatenango), located in the North of El Salvador. In 2005 the population of the municipality was 30, 671 inhabitants. The territorial extensión is distributed in the following manner: Rural land: approx. 131.05 km2. Urban land: approx. 75 km2. For its administration the municipality is divided into 6 “cantons” and 36 “caseríos”. This population was founded in Pre-Columbian times by Lenca tribes, but by the end of the 19th Century was controlled by the Yaquis, or Pipiles, tribes. The name Chalatenango is derived from náhuat words chal (sand), at (water or river), and tenango (valley): thus the name means “valley of water and sands." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chalatenango, El Salvador (municipality)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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