The westernmost of El Salvador's 14 departments, Ahuachapán did not exist until 1869 (El Salvador itself became independent in 1823). It was formed during a bureaucratic reorganization under President Francisco Dueñas. Prior to that, it had been part of Santa Ana Department. The name derives from the Nahuatl-language terms 'Awa' (oak tree) + 'cha' (dwelling) + 'pan' (town or place). The department's capital is also named Ahuachapán. The region was traditionally a bit of a backwater, being visited and cataloged by Spaniards during the 1580's, but mostly ignored for centuries afterwards. The locals were a mix of Nahuatl, Xinca, and Mixe-speakers who were subjects of larger kingdoms. Following El Salvador's independence in the 1820's, the region gained somewhat more significance, since it established El Salvador's border from Guatemala. Towns such as Ahuachapán grew as a result of administrative needs. The opening of El Salvador and Guatemala's segments of the Pan-American Highway in the 1960's also turned the area into a trade corridor. Ahuachapán was the site of several battles during Guatemalan president Justo Rufino Barrios's attempts to unify Central America in the 1880's, though the final battle in which he was killed in 1885 took place slightly over the departmental border in Santa Ana. Due to the department's western location, it was largely unaffected by the 1980's civil war.Ahuachapán's motto 'Ciudad De Los Ausoles' refers to Los Ausoles, an area of geothermal springs. The name derives from the Nahuatl 'ahuitzolli,' meaning 'boiling waters.' It has no connection to the French term 'au sol,' as is occasionally claimed.
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>>18615619>Daily Salvadoran Department Threadlol
>>18615619Interesting thread. I didn’t know Guatemala attempted to reunite Central America.
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A few more notes about Ahuachapán - its most momentous event in the 20th century was its role in 'La Matanza,' or 'the massacre' of 1932, in which communist revolutionary Farabundo Martí launched an abortive peasant rebellion which was brutally crushed by government forces. The rebellion was most intense in the western coffee-growing regions, including Ahuachapán. The government's crackdown following the revolt included the execution of 30,000 peasants, many of them indigenous, leading to the sharp decline of indigenous languages and customs within El Salvador. Farabundo Martí's name was adopted in the 1970's by the leftist rebel group FPL (the Farabundo Martí Popular Liberation Forces), which formed the nucleus of the FMLN guerilla faction in the 1980's civil war. However, Ahuachapán was one of the least-affected departments during the war because of its distance from rebel supply lines, many of which originated on the opposite side of the country in Daniel Ortega's Nicaragua.
>>18616258Ahuachapán was also the home town of poet Alfredo Espino, sometimes described as the 'John Keats of El Salvador' (Keats died at 25; Espino died at 28). Espino's work in the 1920's was associated with naturalism and folk-scenes, eg:>Los pericos pasan (The passing parakeets)>La tarde despierta de su sueño, (The afternoon arises from its rest)>cuando la alígera nube despunta cantando… (as a feather-light cloud buds into song)>Una nube de alas… una alegre nube que baja, que sube… (A winged cloud... a joyous cloud in fall and ascent)>Son ellos. Se alejan entre llano y cielo. (Those ones; fleeing between fields and the heavens)>Son las esmeraldas de un collar en vuelo… (The emeralds on a necklace cast to flight)>Bulliciosamente trazan una verde curva en el ambiente, (Tracing their boisterous green curves through their milieu)>¿Van a los palmares de ondeante abanico? (Are they off to the swaying palms?)>Ellos van a donde les apunta el pico. (They follow their beaks...)>Se alejan, se alejan …pero van tan juntos, (They part; they part... but they hold so close)>que más bien parecen renglones de puntos… (That they seem like a dotted line)>Y en un llano caen, (And they fall upon the flats)>así como cuando un árbol se está deshojando. (As though a tree of sky shed its leaves)That's a bit more stuff about Ahuachapán.
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