Geography of El Salvador, the Glossary

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1. 88 relations: Ahuachapán Department, Alluvium, Arable land, Basalt, Basel Convention, Caribbean Basin, Caribbean Plate, Central America, Cerrón Grande Dam, Cerro El Pital, CITES, Coatepeque Caldera, Cocos Plate, Coffee, Conchagua (volcano), Convention on Biological Diversity, Cordillera de Apaneca, Deforestation, Departments of El Salvador, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Earthquake, El Salvador, Erosion, Exclusive economic zone, Federal Research Division, Geothermal power, Geyser, Granite, Guatemala, Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras, Hurricane Mitch, Hydroelectricity, Hydropower, Ilopango International Airport, Israel, Izalco (volcano), Kyoto Protocol, La Libertad Department (El Salvador), La Libertad, La Libertad, La Unión Department, Lake Güija, Lake Ilopango, Lava, Lebanon, Lempa River, Library of Congress, Libya, List of earthquakes in El Salvador, Meanguera del Golfo, ... Expand index (38 more) »

Ahuachapán Department

Ahuachapán is a department of El Salvador in the west of the country.

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Alluvium

Alluvium is loose clay, silt, sand, or gravel that has been deposited by running water in a stream bed, on a floodplain, in an alluvial fan or beach, or in similar settings.

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Arable land

Arable land (from the arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Basel Convention

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to restrict the transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries.

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Caribbean Basin

The Caribbean Basin or Caribbean Proper (or the Caribbean Basin regionUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, "Caribbean Basin Initiative--1983: Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 544, April 13, 1983." Volume 98, Issue 277 of S.

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Caribbean Plate

The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America.

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Central America

Central America is a subregion of North America.

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Cerrón Grande Dam

The Cerrón Grande Hydroelectric Dam (Spanish: Central Hidroeléctrica Cerrón Grande) spans the Lempa River north of San Salvador in the municipalities of Potonico, (Chalatenango) and Jutiapa (Cabañas) in El Salvador.

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Cerro El Pital

Cerro El Pital is a mountain in Central America, on the border of El Salvador and Honduras.

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CITES

CITES (shorter name for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals from the threats of international trade.

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Coatepeque Caldera

Coatepeque Caldera (Nawat: cōātepēc, "at the snake hill") is a volcanic caldera in El Salvador in Central America.

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Cocos Plate

The Cocos Plate is a young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Central America, named for Cocos Island, which rides upon it.

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Coffee

Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted coffee beans.

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Conchagua (volcano)

Conchagua (also known as Cochague) consists of two overlapping stratovolcanoes in a single conical edifice.

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Convention on Biological Diversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty.

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Cordillera de Apaneca

Cordillera de Apaneca is a volcanic mountain range in western El Salvador.

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Deforestation

Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.

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Departments of El Salvador

El Salvador is divided into 14 departments (Spanish: departamentos) for administrative purposes, subdivided into 44 municipalities (municipios) and 262 districts.

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Deutscher Wetterdienst

The Deutscher Wetterdienst or DWD for short, is the German Meteorological Service, based in Offenbach am Main, Germany, which monitors weather and meteorological conditions over Germany and provides weather services for the general public and for nautical, aviational, hydrometeorological or agricultural purposes.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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El Salvador

El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America.

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Erosion

Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.

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Exclusive economic zone

An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.

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Federal Research Division

The Federal Research Division (FRD) is the research and analysis unit of the United States Library of Congress.

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Geothermal power

Geothermal power is electrical power generated from geothermal energy.

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Geyser

A geyser is a spring with an intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by steam.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.

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Gulf of Fonseca

The Gulf of Fonseca (Golfo de Fonseca), a part of the Pacific Ocean, is a gulf in Central America, bordering El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

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Honduras

Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America.

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Hurricane Mitch

Hurricane Mitch was the second-deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Hydropower

Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines.

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Ilopango International Airport

Ilopango International Airport is an airport located on the eastern part of the city of San Salvador, El Salvador, once serving the city as its international airport until 1980 when it was replaced by the larger and more modern El Salvador International Airport, located about 50 km south of the city.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Izalco (volcano)

Izalco is an active stratovolcano on the side of the Santa Ana Volcano, which is located in western El Salvador.

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Kyoto Protocol

The was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO2 emissions are driving it.

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La Libertad Department (El Salvador)

La Libertad is one of the departments of El Salvador and is located in the southwest of the country.

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La Libertad, La Libertad

La Libertad ('Liberty') is a municipality in the La Libertad Department of El Salvador.

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La Unión Department

La Unión is the easternmost department of El Salvador.

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Lake Güija

Lake Güija is a lake in Central America.

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Lake Ilopango

Lake Ilopango is a crater lake which fills an 8 by 11 km (72 km2 or 28 sq mi) volcanic caldera in central El Salvador, on the borders of the San Salvador, La Paz, and Cuscatlán departments.

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Lava

Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.

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Lempa River

The Lempa River (Río Lempa) is a river in Central America.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Libya

Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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List of earthquakes in El Salvador

Notable earthquakes in the history of El Salvador include the following.

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Meanguera del Golfo

Meanguera del Golfo is a municipality in the La Unión Department of El Salvador.

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Middle America Trench

The Middle America Trench is a major subduction zone, an oceanic trench in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the southwestern coast of Middle America, stretching from central Mexico to Costa Rica.

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Montreal Protocol

The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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North American Plate

The North American Plate is a tectonic plate containing most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.

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Overexploitation

Overexploitation, also called overharvesting, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

The Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT), formally known as the 1963 Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground.

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Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.

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Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.

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Plateau

In geology and physical geography, a plateau (plateaus or plateaux), also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side.

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Ramsar Convention

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar sites (wetlands).

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San Andreas Fault

The San Andreas Fault is a continental right-lateral strike-slip transform fault that extends roughly through the U.S. state of California.

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San Miguel (volcano)

San Miguel (also known as Volcán Chaparrastique) is a stratovolcano in central-eastern El Salvador, approximately southwest of the city of San Miguel.

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San Salvador

San Salvador is the capital and the largest city of El Salvador and its eponymous department.

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San Salvador (volcano)

The San Salvador Volcano (also known as Quezaltepeque or El Boquerón) is a stratovolcano situated northwest to the city of San Salvador.

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San Vicente (volcano)

San Vicente (also known as Chichontepec or Las Chiches) is a stratovolcano in central El Salvador.

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Santa Ana Department

Santa Ana is a department of El Salvador in the northwest of the country.

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Santa Ana Volcano

The Santa Ana Volcano or Ilamatepec (volcán de Santa Ana) is a large stratovolcano located in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador.

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Sea level

Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.

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Sierra Madre de Chiapas

The Sierra Madre is a major mountain range in Central America.

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Sonsonate, El Salvador

Sonsonate is a city and district of El Salvador, of which it is also its municipal seat.

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Tectonics

Tectonics are the processes that result in the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.

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Territorial waters

Territorial waters are informally an area of water where a sovereign state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, and potentially the extended continental shelf (these components are sometimes collectively called the maritime zones).

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Toxic waste

Toxic waste is any unwanted material in all forms that can cause harm (e.g. by being inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin).

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Trade winds

The trade winds or easterlies are permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.

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Tropics

The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.

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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea Treaty, is an international treaty that establishes a legal framework for all marine and maritime activities.

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United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD) is a Convention to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through national action programs that incorporate long-term strategies supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements.

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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the UN process for negotiating an agreement to limit dangerous climate change.

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Usulután

Usulután is the fifth largest city in El Salvador, and capital of the Usulután Department in the south-east of El Salvador.

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Usulután (volcano)

Usulután is a stratovolcano in central El Salvador, rising above the coastal plain between the San Vicente and San Miguel volcanoes, and just east of Taburete volcano.

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Usulután Department

Usulután (from the Nawat language, meaning "city of the ocelots") is a department of El Salvador in the southeast of the country (Lenca region).

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Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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1982 El Salvador earthquake

The 1982 El Salvador earthquake occurred southeast of San Salvador on 19 June at 00:21 local time (06:21 UTC).

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1986 San Salvador earthquake

The 1986 San Salvador earthquake occurred at on 10 October 1986 with a moment magnitude of 5.7 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_El_Salvador

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